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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?) The same goes for the badger, an animal that has become much more numerous and widespread in Britain in the last 50 years.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: six wild boars by Snezana Panjkovic.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes.

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Birding Borneo with Non Birders

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One recommendation I can make is the night walks in the Orangutan Centre, which got us snakes, a Sunda Stink-badger and a sleeping Hooded Pitta. Combine this with one of the best places to watch lowland species and you’ve got a winning combination of entertainment for birders and non-birders alike. Kinabatangan River. Danum Valley.

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