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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. While enjoying the family of Wattled Jacanas , a female Green Kingfisher flew in to an overhanging branch and sat there for several minutes.

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Pink in Africa

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Its mostly found on the ground in thickets or the edges of dense vegetation and usually in small family parties. Pink-backed Pelican. Its a pelican that is restricted to freshwaters whereas Great White also enjoys the marine zones. Pink-backed Pelican by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours. Photo by Adam Riley.

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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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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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Since 1966, when the Breeding Bird Survey first began monitoring, numbers have declined 79 percent. We need to create bridges (and a very happy experience with a local ranching family led us to believe that this is possible). Yes, it takes a village to locate a Sprague’s Pipit. back to the birds.

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My Year in Birding 2012

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Mottled Duck ? May – Migration’s Peak and Breeding Begins. We had a wonderful family vacation in Germany and the Czech Republic during which I managed to do a bit of birding. I went to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida. Florida Scrub Jay ? Crested Caracara and Snail Kite ?

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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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Latham’s Snipe

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Driving through dairy country we soon added Australian Wood Duck , Pacific Black Duck , Grey Teal , Grey Fantail , Wedge-tailed Eagle , Laughing Kookaburra , Eastern Rosella and Superb Fairy-wren to the 2020 Year List. Eurasian Coot are always there, but I was delighted to find several Blue-billed Ducks to add to the list.

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