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Birdwatching Santiago de Chile Part-2

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Continued from: Birdwatching Santiago de Chile – Trip Report. We reached the edge of the hillside and a large group of ground birds flushed in front of us making lots of noise which attracted the hunting hawks; they flew over our heads looking to catch something in this chicken-run type of escape. Chilean Hawk Juvenile.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

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; Debi Shearwater points out that seabirding is really all about the ocean and conservation; Alvaro Jaramillo touchingly traces his love of pelagics and seabirds back to a childhood adventure in Chile; and Jen Brumfield offers what could be a melodramatic radio play about chasing Jaegers in Ohio. In the next essay, J. Illustration for J.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book. ” [loc.3014,

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