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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

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A narrow forest road takes us to the chain blocking the entrance, with a sign “Area closed – bear danger”. This feeding station is not here for the tourists: in order to lower the bee-hive raiding (even the Serbian word for a bear, medved, comes from the word honey – med), supplementary feeding was offered to local bears for several decades.

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Monterrey Meetings

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Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people. We finally reached Mesa de Oso , the table (mountain) of the bear. Work brings me regularly to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico. It is a special city because the surrounding Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey redeems the city’s many environmental sins.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of 2018)

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Your 2018 year lists, whether you tally them or not, have already begun to populate, silently bearing witness to your commitment to bird looking or lack thereof. Some eager beavers have already broken triple digits for the year while less industrious sorts may not even be in double digits. And they’re off!

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

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And in an unforgiving industry, Ommegang has avoided ruinous overexpansion, declining sales, and other common pitfalls of aging craft breweries without resorting to gimmicky attempts at relevance, remaining a steadfast but quietly inventive brewery in this sleepy corner of New York.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. Audubon guides to birds have been around since 1946. Yellow Wood-Warbler Plate from National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Eastern Region, rev.

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“How about Pineapple Gose-beak?” – Uinta Brewing Company: Flamingose

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And, with all due apologies to those who have yet to acquire a taste for tartness, please bear with us and rest assured it won’t be long before we move into less summery fare. . For all its imposing reputation, German brewing has produced its fair share of forgotten relics.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

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Though the coast of British Columbia, a part of the Great Bear Rainforest, was rich in both, it was appallingly deficient in scientific data. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. And, this was badly needed.

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