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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

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We are in the village of Finikas on the island of Syros in the Cyclades archipelago of Greece. This shearwater is a Mediterranean endemic, breeding from Sardinia and Corsica to the Adriatic and the Aegean. Tha dropping numbers are suspected in Greece and Croatia, and confirmed in Italy, France and Malta. Practicalities.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

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And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. But none came.

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