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Great Bowerbirds bowers

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We often see them flying from place to place collecting items for their bowers and they are rather clever at imitating other birds vocal sounds. In a period of a week it had filled up the inside of the bower with a collection of brand new shiny tech screws. The green glass collection. Bower at Lake Argyle.

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Spotting scope review: Swarovski 25-60×65 STX

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The gull was showing no intention of moving, so I went home to collect a camera. Before I acquired my own Swarovski binoculars, I had the chance to test both ELs and CLs for months at a time and so, from my own experience I knew what level of quality this brand guarantees. How to describe the experience in one word?

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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While some people never overcome this vestigial aversion to sour and bitter sensations, this innate prejudice can be overturned with experience, becoming acquired tastes we learn to enjoy just as much as the more dependable, uncomplicated pleasures of sweetness, salt, and fat. I’m glad that Collective Arts Brewing agrees.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Do not buy these books, unless you are collecting old bird books.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement. The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) leaders urged followers to dress well, echoing the style of their charismatic leader, Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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Elizabeth spent two years in Australia, traveling there with John and her oldest son, then living with acquaintances and relatives in Tasmania, Sydney, and Yarrundi while John traipsed across the continent shooting birds, collecting skins. And I’m so happy I did. but not too large, and not overwhelmingly heavy.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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Besides the urgent need to identify my dragonflies, I was interested in hands-on experience using these field guides. The authors pay far less attention to photographing and collecting adult dragonfly specimens. The section thus ties in nicely with WILDGuides identity as a conservation-minded publisher.

Ireland 172