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A Gentlemen’s Big Day’s Birding

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This wasn’t a mere 24-hour bird race, but a 48-hour event, and was filmed by the BBC for a programme called The Great Safari Bird Race. We continued until well after sunset, but both Little Owl and Barn Owl eluded us, as did Grey Partridge. Though I say it myself, it still makes an amusing read.

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Birding a flooded highway

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It was our second trip out on this piece of highway this year and sadly the second deceased Barn Owl. Unfortunately we have only ever seen dead Barn Owls in the Broome area and one day it would be nice to see a bird hunting over the land. Grass Owls are also present in the area, but remain off our bird list.

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Roebuck Plains in flood

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It didn’t take too long after the big rain event at the end of January for Roebuck Plains to flood and the birds to arrive. Sadly, one of the first birds that we saw was a recently deceased Barn Owl. Over the last few weeks we have had some significant rainfall in the Broome area. Water across the highway.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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In a sequence of events to which every wildlife rehabilitator can relate, stories of the brothers who cared for injured birds circulated, their telephone began to ring, and their quest for medical knowledge escalated.

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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The Great Miami Winter Bird Count, an event that transpired over the course of four days from February 13-16, set out to record this diversity for the first time in an organized manner as part of the overall Miami Birding Wave project. Barn Owl: 3. Eastern Screech-Owl: 5. Great Horned Owl: 3. Burrowing Owl: 3.

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