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Disaster in the Sundarbans

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Due to the Ganges floods, their planned weekend of sailing through the labyrinth of channels turned into a week-long stay among about 270 Tigers , according to the 2011 census – the last population inhabiting mangroves and one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the planet! They are doing it bare-handed without any protective gear.’

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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It is also native to Japan, where it is protected and protectively studied to the point where Slaght had trouble getting any information.). “The Volkovs took their food seriously and once they began cooking were a near-unstoppable force” (chapter 13). Slaght has a wonderful talent for depicting people.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2022

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Poor Britons – Brexit did not protect them from being invaded by birds from the continent. Nanhui shrikes in September included Brown Shrike … … Tiger Shrike … … Bull-headed Shrike … … and of course the resident Long-tailed Shrike. Well, trust the Germans to come up with a legend like that.

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