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Black Bear

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A month or so ago I stated my intention to alter the way I blog and one thing I wanted to get back into that I did for a brief time last year was podcasting.   Black Bear. During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law.

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). And I need you to vote for me and send me to Antarctica, so I could write wildlife blogs on Adélie Penguins and Leopard Seals.

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My Loo List

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He writes regularly for Australia’s own birding blog “ Bird-O.com &# and spends all his free time either looking for desert land snails or, you guessed it, birding. In 2008 Mark founded the annual Red Centre Bird Week and Twitchathon which occurs each September/October in Alice Springs. Here Mark shares the story of his Loo List.

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I Get Back

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I didn’t get back to the hobby until about eight years ago, in the brave new world of digital cameras, field guide apps, digital listing, birders’ chat groups, and yes, blogging. When it became too much to bear, I stayed away from Pino Real for 18 months. This Mexican Violetear decided to prove this law: Colorful.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Dragan seems to be confused as to what blog he writes on, as his BBOTY isn’t even a bird, but here’s how he described his encounter in his blog post : The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. If three times is a charm what is four times?

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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Don’t you love it when blog post writers split topics that do not interest you in the first place into two separate parts? He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time).

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