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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Actually, when I started to bird, my second ever duck, after the Mallard, was a Ruddy Shelduck! Soon, I found three large ducks on the water, but as soon as I come closer, they took flight, like proper wild ducks. At the Danube in practically downtown Belgrade – how odd is that? 10000birds.com/the-ruddy-shelduck-twitch.htm.

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What Will My Next Ten Birds in Queens Be?

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Long-eared Owl* Harlequin Duck* Connecticut Warbler* Alder Flycatcher. Le Conte’s Sparrow – 15 Dec 2012 – This was a self-found life bird at Edgemere Landfill that, frustratingly, did not show up for the Queens Christmas Bird Count the next day. The only downside is that it was a female.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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• Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet Sea Snakes of Northern Australia.Or Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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