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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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It was more than 50 years before I was to see another lynx, not in the Doñana, but in the Sierra Morena mountains to the north, which is now the best place to see these handsome cats in the wild. A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece.

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The Collared Finchbill

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It is a bit of an outsider in the bulbul family, being only one of two bulbuls in the genus Spizixos (“chirping bulbul” – a bit strange as many other bulbuls including the omnipresent Light-vented Bulbul also chirp a lot). The Collared Finchbill is a bulbul, even though the name does not state this directly.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

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Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking. The male, of course, I am afraid. How exciting.

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The Dog Who Healed a Family

4 The Love Of Animals

I recently got a chance to read a charming new book called The Dog Who Healed a Family: And Other True Animal Stories That Warm the Heart & Touch the Soul. Of course reading about the “puppy express&# (based on the Pony Express), was a great testimonial to just how many kind hearted people there are in the world.

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A Cuckoo in Costa Rica Brings in the Birders

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Stealthy, quiet, sneaky and smart, the forest roadrunner is like a feathered cat. Speaking of cats, I am reminded of an experience a co-worker of mine had while surveying birds years ago in Washington state. He was of course happily flabbergasted. It was a ground-cuckoo family and they weren’t even shy!

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Birding around Chaka, Qinghai, China

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The Brown Accento r certainly ranks among the less attractive accentors, though of course, some species in this family set a rather high bar. My cats think both taste similar, so maybe the two species should be lumped anyway. billion years , the earth will most likely be absorbed by the sun.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia. Which of course is the perfect transition to that bird, the Common Myna. ” (HBW). The result of these Australian orgies are juvenile Dusky Moorhens. Well, a better transition than what I usually manage.

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