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Journeys With Emperors: Tracking the World’s Most Extreme Penguin–A Book Review

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They breed in colonies scattered around the Antarctic continent (the number ranges from 60 to 70, and as Kooyman points out, the colonies can drastically change in size from year to year) on the ice (and one of the things I learned from this book is how many different kinds of ice there is in the Antarctic) in the darkest months of winter.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan.

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Rwanda Dreaming

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This portal has compared data on the percentage of a total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fishes and vascular plants per unit of area, creating a biodiversity index. Add to this the fact that the road is being serviced by public transport. Mongabay.com has done exactly that.

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Where could you go birding in Australia in 2023?

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If you happen to find yourself in Melbourne then there are also plenty of places to go birding in the city itself or not far by public transport. Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post. Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome once again. One Tree Hill-Dandenong Ranges National Park. Geelong-Rippleside Park to Eastern Park.

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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Whenever I come here, I am focused on birds, but I have had some good mammal sighting as well: a roe deer swimming across a pond (only its head and antlers visible), a pair of otters playing in the water, a curious (young?) These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only.

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The Smell of Napalm in the Morning

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Photo: This area holds 3 to 4 breeding pairs of White-tailed Eagles , which represents the biggest density per square mile anywhere in the country. Wigeons are only migrants and not a breeding species in Serbia and August is a bit too early for any longer distance duck movements. Photographed by Szekeres Levente. and one ad.).

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