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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. . One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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