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Dr Smith was later in charge of medical services in the Crimea but had a feud with Florence Nightingale and was severely criticized for mismanagement, yet despite this he was knighted in 1859. Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection. Image by Adam Riley.

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A Problem with Gulls

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Collectively, they’re referred to as the Herring Gull complex. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. This wiki looks good too.] The Lesser Black-backed gull has a dark grey to black back and wings.

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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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What I didn’t know was how this relationship actually works: the mechanics of Red Knot migration, the reduced digestive systems necessary for their long flighta, the need to fatten up quickly so they can fly to the Arctic and breed, how they compete with other shorebirds and gulls and, it turns out, humans, for horseshoe crab eggs.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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of Army Medical Department 1815-1851. The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. The actual findings are not that interesting – boy babbler meets girl babbler, they fall in love and breed – and everything is over in less than one month.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

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A certain breed, age, sex, temperament, that you think will fit into your home. Some pay for all medical bills, some even pay for food. We collect items through regular donations, music gigs, visual art shows, culinary events, DJ events, drop box programs, and more. Fostering is a wonderful experience.

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