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Where to Watch Birds in the Iron Gates

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Beside birds, in this park you stand a chance of spotting the Eurasian Lynx , Brown Bear and Gray Wolf ! Well, do you really? The Woodchat Shrike, Boljetin, June 2014.

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Paradise Trashed

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I always like seeing turtles (even if I lack the ability to separate Green Turtles from Hawksbill Turtles), and I did see my first tropical cuttlefish, which was pretty awesome. PADI will come to bear on the shop, and the island is becoming more touristy, which should clean things up.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Over the last two years, authorities have discovered 57 cases of trafficking in wild animals involving more than 7,612 individuals including monkeys and Tibetan bears and elephant tusks.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Perhaps their next product will be named “Gills”—or “Turtle” or “Trout” or Salmon?” In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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Three Impressions

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Two hundred metres further, I have a similar situation: a Turtle Dove walking, one sparrow-like bird next to her and something bigger dusting itself in the background. And so, I am sitting in the shade of apple and pear trees as old as I am (I really do not know why I hear comments that those trees are too old to bear fruit!)

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The Louisiana black bear’s threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act.

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Birding Southern Baja: Todos Santos

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It’s almost a bucolic place; sea turtles nest on the beaches, Humpback Whales and bat rays frolic just offshore, and you can buy the freshest fish from the panga fisherman at Punta Lobos every afternoon. They do bear some resemblance to Sage Thrashers , but have a much heavier, more sickle-shaped bill.