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Spotting scope review: Swarovski 25-60×65 STX

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winter waterfowling at fish farms), but always preferred to leave it behind. 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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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes. They are all primarily fish-eaters adapted for life in the water and the air. Unlike cormorants, which have hooked bills to grab fish, these birds have daggerlike bills with which they spear fish.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

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The Jewel Hunter is heavily laced with Gooddie’s particular brand of broad ironic humor, and I did enjoy that, but I would have traded about 10 percent for a little more insight into the unexpected outcomes of his experience. This is the birding adventure book supreme. This is a travel adventure book.

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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. It is Herperia comma, the skipper we call Common Branded Skipper, a smaller orange-brownish skipper with several white spots on its hindwings. I think British and American lepidopterists need to talk more.

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