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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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.” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. 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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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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Gooddie describes his quest in terms of a contest of wills and strategy. And sun bears. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. There is little factual material here about global conservation and protection, but that is not the book’s purpose. And mosquitos. And leeches. And leeches.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges.

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