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Birding in a Refinery

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While the P-a-P Wildfowl Trust’s main thrust is the breeding and release of five duck species, the habitat encourages a number of native wetland birds to inhabit and proliferate the area. Due to the plethora of bird species around, invariably we were to experience something breathtaking.

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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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What Birds Will Get Me To 300 In Queens?

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Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. Brown Pelican - Though two have been reported to eBird since 2008 this bird is even more of a long shot than Black Vulture. Sadly, it did not stick around to breed though I thought that it might.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Ducks and herons include Garganey and Ferruginous Duck , Squacco and Purple Herons , as well as the Eurasian Spoonbill. eBird bar chart. #2

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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With the easy-to-use platform offered by the Great Backyard Bird Count, birders of all ages and experience levels set out to find, tally, and document as many birds as possible within the boundaries of Miami-Dade. Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Mottled Duck: 19.

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