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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. ” I wonder if the rules of the European Song Contest could also be adapted, with the worst performers being turned into birds or maybe turtles.

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A Little Win

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This email was flagging up the activities of a ‘sporting agency’ in Britain who were offering trips/holidays to Morocco to shoot Turtle Doves. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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Of the dozen gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol β€œThe Twelve Days of Christmas,” seven are birds: the seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and – of course – a partridge in a pear tree. Donna). ==.

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