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Laysan Albatrosses

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But the islands of Hawaii have two species that breed in considerable numbers, and the highlight of my time spent working on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals was spending time with these birds. One of the four species known as the North Pacific Albatrosses, it is also the commoner and less endangered species in its genus.

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I Remember Elephants

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Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? Steven had no binoculars, but impressively sharp eyes and great knowledge of birds. One may say so.

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Missing Mojo

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However my ‘twitch’ pales in comparison with the big twitch undergone by a couple of Brit birders in recent days who headed out to Japan on a 5814 mile twitch (and that was just to get there!) Till then good birding. for a drake Baer’s Pochard. Would it be not starting earlier?

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Comebackers

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These species have seen the infamous Brink of Extinction, seemingly gone over the edge, and have scrambled back to solid ground in the nick of time…with a little extra help. birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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How when he needed a dissertation topic in 2005 (studying at the University of Minnesota), it was either Hooded Crane or Blakiston’s Fish Owl, both iconic birds of the area. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It 01, 2021.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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Learning irrelevant things while reading about birds. Of the female, the website Birds of Singapore says that it “resembles male but has greyish-brown upperparts”, which is a strange way of stating that its color is completely different. The coloration of the bird subspecies is mainly similar to that of L.

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