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Flock to Marion

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This is a cruise like no other, full of scientific lectures, over forty guides spread out on deck, bird-themed parties, and a lights-off mandate to protect birds at night. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013. It is an extremely popular fundraising project with an almost cult-like following.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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What To Do If You Find a Pit Bull

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Michael Vick, whose unearthed gambling operation was found to not only force dogs to fight, but also kill under-performing dogs in twisted ways, is only one story in a mass of untold stories. It may feel threatened, and animals that feel threatened instinctually protect themselves. Begin Searching For an Owner.

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Prespa Lakes National Park, Greece: the largest Dalmatian Pelican colony in the world

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For longest lists, go there in May when migrants are still passing while the local breeders are active and visible. Pelicans and cormorants breeding at the Mikri often go to the Megali Prespa to fish the cold, deep waters – actually, cormorants to dive for fish and pelicans to wait for the cormorants at the surface to steal their prey.

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The Storks of Africa

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Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. They have even been known to kill children who have been incautious enough to approach too closely. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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Azure-winged Magpies are cooperative breeders, and it seems that there is a connection between having a larger repertoire of calls and being a social species (me, not being very social, I usually get by with just three different grunting sounds). for a sample of more than 800 species ( source ). At least as far as the male is concerned.

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