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Note to Those Wanting Promotion: Pay Attention

Animal Person

And that's when I get e-mails like this: Dear Mary I’m Caroline and I’m one of the Supporter Services team members for Compassion in World Farming. Having read your blogs I thought you might like to hear about Compassion in World Farming’s Bake with Compassion fundraising week. On Egypt's Pig Cull. Eat More Veal?

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Well, you know I’m only joking about the life list. Birders are not, after all, stamp collectors. Well, not really. 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J.,

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A holiday in Egypt

10,000 Birds

From my poolside viewpoint I can encompass four countries: Egypt where I am and, over the sea, Israel to the far left (there’s a birding mecca of Eilat), Jordan in the middle and finally the endless deserts of Saudi Arabia to the right. Waves, deep blue sea and that salty scent. Oddly, not a single gull in sight. Yes, I sure would.

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