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This is my dream – this is my nightmare

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Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77 From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders.

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Don’t Ignore the Barnacles – they’re Real Birds

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This individual was photographed in India There’s one problem with this approach, as it can lead to birds being ignored. The European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 makes interesting reading. Originally confined to the Arctic, breeding [of Barnacle Geese] is now confirmed throughout much of the Baltic coast S North Sea.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

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The Metamorphosis

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They even breed there, though the chicks look a bit different and presumably sometimes ask whether they have been adopted. Grey-headed Swamphens are quite widely distributed – I had seen them before at Sultanpur, a wetland near Delhi, India. Yet surprisingly, it sometimes matches the color of the surrounding wetlands quite well.

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A few Barbets

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I saw it in a park in Delhi, and indeed the HBW remarks that it “has adapted well to human habitation, and is common and widespread in the parks and gardens of cities such as Delhi” (I once had a visitor from India here in Shanghai, and he asked me if/why there are no birds in Shanghai.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing' Sam claims that they are always there, 26 of them only a week ago. Locals being vegetarians, why are there no birds?

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Birding without a phone

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Out of my total of 15 observations ever, this is only the third within Serbia (the rest were half in India, the other half in Greece). published in the US as “Birds of Europe”), shows only a male in breeding plumage. This is an uncommon species here – only about a dozen birds overwinter in the country annually.

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