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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. population has been estimated to be approximately 350 million 2.

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Birding Iceland on the Fly

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Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. There you will find more breeding terns, gulls and dozens of Graylag Geese. Sadly, I missed out on seeing White-tailed Eagles and Harlequin Ducks.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Yes, Germans were a particularly supersticious breed in the days of old, and would not dare to use the word devil even when cursing. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“. As a rule of thumb, with quite a number of exceptions, if the species sports feathery ears and is not an eagle-owls, it’s an “Eule“.

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