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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Multitudes, hundreds of Brown Pelicans and Terns–Least, Common, Foster’s, Sandwich, Royal, and Caspian. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. Surprisingly, the Avocet area was not fenced off. I imagined walking right up to them. I also imagined that they would not flush, which is a real fantasy.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Common Nightingales were singing, a squadron of Dalmatian Pelicans was in the air and everything was exactly where it should be, including myself. At mid-day, we took a boat tour of the heronries and the pelican islands with Nikos. Dalmatian Pelican © Dusanka Stokovic-Simic. Belles, rising steeply two kilometres (1.2

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Combined Beat list for 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Spot-billed Pelican – Pelecanus philippensis. Great White Pelican – Pelecanus onocrotalus.

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Combined Beats’ list

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. American White Pelican – Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. Brown Pelican – Pelecanus occidentalis. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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