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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people. We finally reached Mesa de Oso , the table (mountain) of the bear. It must face the sun at the right time of day, the material needs to be good for excavating but not too soft to avoid collapsing tunnels, it needs to be steep, and the list goes on and on.

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

10,000 Birds

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. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations. by John Bull and John Farrand, Jr.,

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. By Louis-Jean Germain Influenced by his mother, Louis-Jean Germain has long been interested in art, and in recent years, he has become an avid painter of Asian birds. Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014.

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Flexible plans due to flooding

10,000 Birds

Tropical Cyclone Joyce dumped 100mm of rain in Perth as it travelled south as a rain-bearing depression and the whole family had the experience of torrential rain in Western Australia. Occasionally you do have to move right to the edge of the highway or even off the highway if the ground is not too soft to let “wide loads” go by.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

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But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur." HSUS also reports find fur garments falsely labeled "faux" at Loehmann's, revealing an industry-wide problem when it comes to fur labeling. Why is the dog subjected to such unspeakable cruelty?

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