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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

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Reportedly, the Water Thick-knee sometimes locates its nest close to the nest of Nile crocodiles as this offers some protection. While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. On Quora , one question asked (presumably not by a sparrow) is “What does he mean by I have a beautiful soul?”

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Seaside Sparrow. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century.

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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

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After such a mysterious bird, it is time to enjoy the simple pleasure of seeing ordinary birds such as the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag? Unfortunately, I did not manage such a photo this time.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. She even slept with it.”

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Bird Surprises

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This happened to me recently on a birding trip, with somewhat egg-on-the-face results. A wide-open field in a wind-protected spot, recently visited by both mechanical and living manure-spreaders. I was on a birding quest trip with my friend Geoff Heeter. This was Snow Bunting heaven. The proposal from U.S.

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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual. Species can arise by hybridization – the Italian Sparrow is thought to be one.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. It’s just that the exceptions are so much more attention-grabbing.

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