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Well Adapted for a Plunge-diving Lifestyle

10,000 Birds

Watching Humboldt seabirds on the cold waters off the coast of South America , I noticed that of them dive for their fish/food. Small birds will take shallow dives with little or no head start (terns and some gulls) whereas other will take impressive head starts for deeper dives and generally larger fish. Birds Peruvian Boobi'

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

10,000 Birds

Hot summer days, often reaching 40C/104F, time to open another beer and dream of birding some cooler place, a place where deep shade of tall trees controls the heat… Perhaps the world’s second largest rainforest? Ba’Aka people are among the most well-known representatives of an ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

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City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

10,000 Birds

and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims. I am a birder and I can claim that out of Serbia’s total of 350+ bird species, highly urbanised inner city areas of Belgrade hold almost 100 birds, while the outskirts have more than 200 species. km / 1 mi to the fish farm entrance. mi and 2.5 eBird checklist.

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

10,000 Birds

When people think of birds and their sex lives…most of us don’t know much, although it’s not for a lack of interest. Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. This is just a small slice of how birds get it done.

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First Noel

10,000 Birds

An itinerant lifestyle, while wonderful in some regards, does not lend itself to forming certain connections. While I enjoy birding with others, I’ve never really been part of the warp and weft of a birding community. The Queens bird count seemed like a good place to get my feet wet.

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Tips on how to create data for my animal guessing game

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I lowkey want to combine phylum and kingdom, but dont know if this is a good method and wouldnt know what to call it, the phylum replacement would look something like this: Mammals, Reptiles, Fish, Amphibians, Birds, Arthropods (i feel like this would cover all of the necessary animals, i could also include other types of invertebrates, but idk) Also (..)

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

10,000 Birds

This new analysis again suggested that Snowy Owls (and the fascinating fish-owls ) are embedded within the eagle-owl complex. So I wasn’t aware there was any controversy about the matter, until I saw a passage in a new monograph on the bird, The Snowy Owl , by Eugene Potapov and Richard Sale. And that’s a marvelous gift.

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