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A Brief Coastal Visit to Oz

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I am hoping that there is an appreciative audience here, willing to learn a little about down-under birds and wildlife. The Banksia flowers are common in coastal environments in Australia and were among the first native plants collected in 1770 during Cook’s voyage up the Australian east coast.

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

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Using cooking pots, the fishermen collected stained plant matter. They are working to clean up oil without protection and the children are falling sick. They are doing it bare-handed without any protective gear.’ The forest also acts as a buffer to protect the coastline against cyclones and rising sea tides.

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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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Royal Shags and Tricky Parakeets: Birding Queen Charlotte Sound

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As I said last week , I’ve decided to try and knock off a few of the New Zealand endemics and specialities that I haven’t seen before over the coming year, and the first place that sprung to mind was pretty close, just across the Cook Strait in the Marlborough Sounds.

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Petrel Paradise

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Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. The first to cruise past in a hurry were the stunning Cook’s Petrels. The Grey-faced Petrel has all dark plumage with a lighter area around the face.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Although this park was logged in the past, as a national park it is one of the few forests in Ghana that is really protected. . All these forests are in “protected” forest reserves, however at some, logging permits are reportedly being issued for harvesting of these forests. What makes Ghana so special?

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