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

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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“. If you haven’t learned their specific vocabulary, you wouldn’t even understand what the heck two hunters are talking about.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder. Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.”

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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. Sadly, I missed out on seeing White-tailed Eagles and Harlequin Ducks. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

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