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Tenet Wines: The Pundit Syrah (2016)

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The Pundit is a 2016 Syrah from Tenet Wines , a collaborative brand between Ste. Whatever the story is, the bottle is adorned with an eye-catching portrait of an owl with gleaming yellow eyes. It looks like a small, eared owl, perhaps a screech or a scops.

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7 Resolutions for Birding Costa Rica in 2021

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Time is relative but the first day of the first month of a brand new year also acts as a good moment for making birding resolutions. Find Some Roosting Owls. I recall how western New York artist Betsy Potter found owls, one Saw-whet after another. A roosting Crested Owl at Rancho Naturalista. Do Some Raptor Counts.

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The Birds of Washington, DC

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Oh sure, you can go to Rock Creek Park or the Tidal Basin to seek out living avian species, or visitors can head to the Smithsonian museums for a dose of past and present bird lore from all over the world. Throngs of people had lined up on the rainy Sunday to see the brand new dinosaur and fossil exhibit, and it did NOT disappoint.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

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He subsequently leaves for Peru and gets kidnapped and killed by Sendero Luminoso – the local brand of Maoists. Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder who first passed the 8,000 species mark. She died in a car accident during a birding trip. None were found. Then I heard a ruckus.

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State of the Birds, Halloween Edition

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Owls as a group, for instance, have gone from omens of doom to adorable hipster mascots – I blame J. Now, some species of nighthawk have done excellent work. Another traditionally trendsetting group of scary birds that have evolved past their original branding of late are the corvids.

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Ten Things About The New Sibley

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my well-worn first edition with the brand new second edition. The page on extinct species in the introduction is depressing and perfect. Fourteen years can bring pretty big changes both to species’ ranges and to how those ranges are portrayed. There are 111 more species included in this edition.

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Birding on Steroids or the Kerkini Lake in 10 Pictures

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A quick check of the Collins 2 (I think American birders know this book as the “Birds of Europe”, but here, some branding mastermind has interconnected the company’s name and the book title) revealed that we are facing two Siberian Greylag Geese (race rubrirostris ). Picture 5: European Scops-Owl – Otus scops.

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