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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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One nice little story for my blog post lost. I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain.

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

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When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Snark defined blogging back then. Researchers conducted experiments in a lab, then released the animals into the wild, making sure to note that "This was a much harder part of the study, and involved lugging around of batteries," and found similar results.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. If you want to signal to your environment that you a.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2024

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Finding scientific research related to the species online is difficult as the word Merlin is used for so many other things as well – a bird ID app, a wizard ( e.g., “A typical depiction of Merlin tends to be of an old, cloaked wizard with a long white beard.”), of the total, a sobering thought). ”), etc.

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