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You can hear its song in spring, but even then, it is a rare privilege to have one posing at the very ends of willow branches right next to one’s car. A narrow bluff-top buffer zone is also protected. A pair displaying at the end of August, well after the breeding season? House Sparrow – Passer domesticus.

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Serbia Breeding Woodpeckers Feral 114

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MARCH 3, 2011

and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

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Even among the protected areas of Serbia, the Iron Gates National Park (in Serbian: Djerdap) stands out as better preserved. Keep in mind that the special nature reserves (dark green on the park map) enjoy the highest level of protection and are off limits to visitors (possible only with research permits issued by the park authorities).

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Serbia Turtles Birds Eagles 184

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MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. Central Park White-Throated Sparrow Slaty-backed Gull (?) Wicked, right? Do you think it is the female?

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 150

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These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Deer 2011 New York New York Times 124

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MARCH 2, 2011

In particular the South Island destination of Kaikoura is world-renowned for the flocks of albatrosses and giant petrels floating right off the pelagic boat, and the ease of the trip makes it a must-visit for any visiting birder. As we left the long harbour there were plenty of inshore seabirds such as gannets, shags, gulls and terns.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 174

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Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. First amendment rights?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 203

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MARCH 6, 2011

We were at Big John’s pond and a red tailed hawk came out of nowhere and we thought he was going to fly right into the blind. I had a beautifull view on 5 horned grebe here (one in breeding plumage), in Ann Arbor Michigan, for the 3 seconds it lasted, until I heard a huge “CRRACK&# , and I fell through the ice.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 154

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MARCH 6, 2011

Like manky mallards, ganky geese display remarkable variety due to both the methodical manipulations of breeders and the variable volatility of the more natural kind of breeding. Wicked, right? Feral geese run the gamut from pure white to almost entirely gray or brown. We certainly see enough of them, don’t we? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

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MARCH 2, 2011

I spotted a Eurasian Wigeon amongst the American Wigeon right out of the gate, but that wasn’t the best sighting of the day. Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S.

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Wildlife 2011 Sacramento Jordan 155

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MARCH 8, 2011

Share Your Thoughts « Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Wicked, right? The street is then stained with blobs of pecan oil. Thanks for visiting! The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

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JULY 24, 2014

Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Animal rights types start emerging from the woodwork and comparing conservationists to Nazis, obsessing about the purity of a species (see attempts to control Ruddy Ducks to save White-headed Ducks).

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 165

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MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

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to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 252

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MARCH 16, 2011

By March though Scandinavian Rock Pipit begins to show some changes into breeding plumage and outs itself as a migrant rather than a resident. By the way: at the Baltic coast we had large flocks of spinoletta migrating through in late March/April, and due to them moulting from non-breeding to breeding plumage, many had seemingly pale lores.

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2011 Deer Fish New York 150

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MARCH 3, 2020

The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. More on Species Accounts.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 169

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MARCH 13, 2011

They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. Wicked, right? Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. In winter most head to the coasts though some stay inland on open water. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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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. Yellow-Legged Gull These gulls breed around the Mediterranean and have yellow, rather than flesh-coloured legs. Get yours today! I am clearly not.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

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MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. Wicked, right? Boobies — more colorful and varied — are birds of warm, tropical seas.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

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MARCH 10, 2011

The vast majority of Baltimore Orioles that breed in North America return to the tropics between Mexico and northern South America for the cold half of the year. Wicked, right? Instead I saw a flash of orange. Not a minute later, I’d scooped up my kid and sprinted back into the house for my binoculars and camera.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140

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Shallows provide an ideal spawning ground for almost 50 fish species and submerged islands breeding ground for more than 100 bird species. Beside several well-showing Red-backed Shrikes , the highlight was one uncommon Lesser Grey Shrike (highly localized ** , with only 700 to 1000 breeding pairs in Serbia). I like driving.

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Romania Serbia Turtles Blackbirds 117

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Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Common Kingfisher , Common Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 152

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MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) And their Facebook status is always stuck on “its complicated&# – a stable marriage of three males and two females. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 205

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MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. That’s what you do with other game, right? In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years!

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 240

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MARCH 17, 2011

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage. Wicked, right?

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 142

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Corey Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:10 pm The drawing will be based on chance but I reserve the right to disqualify extraordinarily lousy entries. Wicked, right? Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:07 pm So, the drawing is based on who Desi picks, not the quality of the paragraph? I can just type Eu amo Mariquita-de-rabo-vermelho over and over and over again?

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 178

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MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

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MARCH 21, 2011

from left to right Fred, Mike, Isaac, Andrew, Gene (in back), Tom Though it was an absurdly long trip and the ratio of birding to driving was not ideal the twitch was well worth it. Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! Wicked, right?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 187

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MARCH 6, 2011

Outside of the breeding season a few birds may join together in a loose flock if the feeding is good. Wicked, right? To describe the back as grey makes it sound very drab, but in good light it takes on a bluish hue. Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer India New York 177

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MARCH 12, 2011

Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! Wicked, right? The Magnificent Frigatebird is the bird I would want to see. Though not a rare bird, it’s tireless flight, day and night, I find alluring. The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 199

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Each male builds numerous nests, most of which are rejected by the female, who will eventually select a nest she is happy with, allow the proud architect who usually hangs under his masterpiece to mate with her and then begins the breeding process. The White-browed Sparrow-Weaver is the most common and most widespread of its genus.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 215

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MARCH 6, 2011

They will feed up there and then head north to Siberia to breed. The shorebirds are starting to get their breeding plumage and the first to show some colour are the male Bar-tailed Godwit. We relocated it to a native tree, so it was better camouflaged and protected. Wicked, right? Get yours today! Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Australia Deer New York 143

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MARCH 19, 2011

Outside of the tropics, nesting would usually take place in the spring (in the southern hemisphere, spring and the height of the breeding season occurs before Christmas); these pictures were taken in March as the weather in Cape Town is beginning to cool. Wicked, right? The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 161

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). This is not really an option at Nanhui though.

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China Birds Ukraine Killing 171

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There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? “We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes, and endeavor to foster a new relationship where man and nature can both prosper and live in harmony” ( Xi Jinping ).

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 180

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MARCH 5, 2011

Breeding behaviour and plumage was very apparent, but John Wise , an ex-pat Brit now resident in Orlando, told me that the birds’ activities had been held up for a couple of weeks during a cold snap that saw frosts in Florida. Mike Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:32 pm Those egrets in breeding plumage are absolutely exquisite!

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2011 Alligators Florida Deer 116