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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay, I started dreaming about creating a similar wetland reserve on the Danube inside Belgrade, the very area I explored. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of June 2019)

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Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2018)

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This new year already appears to be auspicious for eagles. Not only did I pick up my life Golden Eagle on New Year’s Day, but now the Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. Maybe my perspective is biased, but if you’re feeling left out, you should be making 2018 your Year of the Eagle as well.

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Grand River Brewery: 313 Polish Lager

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I wouldn’t discover serious birding until I’d been living in Queens for over a decade, only after making a fateful visit to Jamaica Bay out of sheer curiosity. Instead, my earliest drinking experiences in Queens centered around imported beer, a fitting circumstance in this borough of immigrants, now that I think about it.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. It’s not easy. Osborn is a superlative natural history writer.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of July 2014)

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kept a special eye out for Bald Eagles ? There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)

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The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) link] Donna S.

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