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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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I’d like a beer too, please, as I have never seen a Masked Duck. It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding.

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