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The Blood Pheasant

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During incubation, the females typically leave the eggs once per day for a duration of about 7 hours ( source ), during which the temperature of the eggs drops to below 10 degrees Celsius for a few hours. But an excerpt from “Train to Kansas City”, a song also covered by the Shop Assistants.

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The return of the Old Man

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Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. The ibises were initially trained to follow a microlight aircraft over the Alps.

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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

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Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks. While driving along and looking for flags, I noticed my lifer hyrax, a large, angry-looking groundhog-like mammal.

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Birding Lake Kerkini, Greece: Three Lazy Days

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Although the trains at the Thessaloniki-Alexandroupolis line seem to be few and far in between, they still stop at this village station turned into a restaurant. The next stop was for lunch in a Railway Station Tavern in the Vyronenia Village.

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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

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If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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With so much to look at, you wouldn’t think my eyes would be drawn to a pine cone nest on the ground, complete with a Canada Goose parent shielding her delicate eggs from the nearby antelope species. But the geese didn’t care, going about their business surrounded by dozens of species from around the globe.

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Peeps and Plovers on Cuitzeo Beaches

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Speaking of trained professionals, I always learn new things when I get to bird with biologist friends. Perhaps the lake’s insects function like the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab eggs that shorebirds gorge on along Chesapeake Bay during their northward spring migration? A Pectoral Sandpiper at dawn is a nice way to start your day.

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