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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. When he reached out to ask if he could contribute a piece to 10,000 Birds about about the ethics around the current Snowy Owl irruption in the central and eastern United States we were all for it!

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Birding Inner Mongolia

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So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration. Let’s move to the birds). Particularly the Snowy Owl which I will show at the end of this post, but also a few others: the Little Owl (always a favorite of mine) … … Long-eared Owl … … and the magnificent Northern Hawk Owl.

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Back in New York and Birding Part 2

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Nassau County, New York, March 2009 After having fully explored the trail around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay , we four bird bloggers agreed to load up Patrick’s car and head over to Jones Beach to see what kind of birds we could find there and some other locations in Nassau County. And what a look at a life bird!

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