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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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Booted Eagle by Kostas Papadopoulos The next morning was a lazy one, a late breakfast and even later excursion. Later in the day, roadside birds included a Booted Eagle and a Levant Sparrowhawk. We also observed nests of Pygmy Cormorants , Dalmatian Pelicans , Little Egrets , Cattle Egret (with a chick), Squacco Heron , and Spoonbills.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family. A Konso village perched atop a terraced hill.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. millions years ago.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Bonelli’s Eagle – Aquila fasciata. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Amur Falcon – Falco amurensis. Laughing Falcon – Herpetotheres cachinnans. Bat Falcon – Falco rufigularis. Gray-chested Dove – Leptotila cassinii.

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Langi Crossing birding part one

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There are no trails as such, but you can follow in the cattle tracks along the edge of the river or the gravel tracks used by vehicles. There was a family of Black-necked Storks that was initially a family group, but over recent weeks they have started to feed separately. Pair of White-bellied Sea Eagles.

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Jochen’s 2014 Year List

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In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Jan 11 : The family gives me half a Saturday off to chase a long-staying Griffon Vulture in nearby Rheinland-Pfalz, about a 30 minutes drive from home.

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Duncan’s 2014 List

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For the moment I’ll stick with the split babbler families although I may relump the laughingthrushes, ground and tree babblers per Molye et al (2012). Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. Cattle Egret ( Bubulcus ibis ); Lahad Datu, Borneo, 1 January. FALCONIDAE (FALCONS).

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