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European Military Exercises May Threaten Dolphins

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The moving of Europe's biggest military exercise to the outer Moray Firth poses a threat to bottlenose dolphins, conservations have claimed. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said noise from warships' sonar could harm the animals. Tags: dolphin europe sonar military. According to the BBC.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia: practicalities, part 3

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Tap water is not as cold as in Europe (and, I presume, North America), but to be called lukewarm it should be warmer. Part 1 of the tour, or a forest so young that birds still have no names Part 2 of the tour, or river dolphins and hoatzins. Don’t we all need a lot of laughs after two years of pandemic?

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Birding the Cyclades: My my, how can I resist you?

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On our way back, three Common Bottlenose Dolphins show right next to the boat and, some time later, a Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ) butterfly appears some 300 metres downwind from the shore. Trips Europe Greece seabirds' diomedea ). Scopoli’s Shearwater (c) Georgos Spiridakis. In the next post: the pelican-covered lake Karkini.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis , is the second largest fish in its range, which covers much of Europe and parts of West Asia. In parts of Western Europe, it is considered to be “exotic” because it has been introduced, possibly by anglers, in lakes and rivers in France and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Gulls of the World: A Photographic Guide: A Gull Book Review

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Gulls of the World: A Photographic Field Guide is a successor, or companion, as the author terms it, to Klaus Malling Olsen’s classic guide, Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004*). So, we start with Dolphin Gull and end with Red-Legged Kittiwake, a totally different sequence from the 2017 eBird listings. Topography.

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