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Operation Duck Drop

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The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. RE: Operation Duck Drop. Operation Duck Drop was a success. RE: Operation Duck Drop. RE: Operation Duck Drop. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop.

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Urban Birding in San Diego

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In our early birding days, Erik and I had one of our most hilarious bird-related fights while looking at a flotilla of ducks in Mission Bay yelling at each other about field marks before realizing we were looking at two different ducks. This makes it a prime spot for bicycle-birding, our niche at the festival.

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All Is Not Lost, Part II

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Some of the birds who depend on the lake itself, such as ducks and shorebirds, have scattered to every remaining reservoir, pond, or puddle in the area. After investigating the area between the towns of Araró and Andocutín, I soldiered on to the equally-small town of Iramuco. A Marsh Wren was the first to greet me.

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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

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This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. In another experiment, other species of Darwin Finches were kept next to Woodpecker Finches that used tools. In general, fish will swim to investigate anything that falls on the water hoping the object might be prey.

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Birding Derby in December

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Derby is approximately 225 kilometres from Broome and has had almost three times the rainfall that Broome has had so far this month and so we thought it would be interesting to go and investigate the various birding areas that we knew of from other visits during our dry months. Plumed Whistling-Ducks. Black-winged Stilt.

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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

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O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. a tropical delight! What a sight. Now that’s a jutting jaw.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. I already have a history of searches for this species. Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck!

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