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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Layover in Singapore

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Taxi v SMRT – The SMRT is the excellent, clean, safe, reliable, cheap transport system of Singapore. Around the edges you may see White-breasted Waterhens , Yellow Bitterns and Lesser Whistling Ducks. If you don’t get to spend it, you can use it on board, or change it back later. Spotted Wood-owl. Stork-billed Kingfisher.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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And even though transportation is so easy and inexpensive, prepare to walk a lot. 7 Tufted Duck. 133 Eurasian Tree Sparrow. You will be amazed at how easily you can access both the urban core and outlying islands and territories through the integrated system of subways, buses, minibuses, and ferries. So don’t be afraid!

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Panama Trip Report: April 2017

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TRANSPORTATION. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck. House Sparrow. In fact, we saw two species of monkey, our only sloths, lots of coatis, and my rarest ever mammal sighting—a Jaguarundi —right on site. All in all, the Radisson Summit delivered what we all wanted. The view from our window at Radisson Summit. Great Tinamou.

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Birds and football! What a combination!

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Below are a few suggestions of sites within the city that can easily be reached using public transport. It features lakes which can usually be relied upon for Neotropic Cormorant and White-faced Whistling Duck on the water with Kiskadees seemingly perched on every bank-side tree. The other attraction is Lago Das Carpas.

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