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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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Next time I will try my local patch of Beljarica backwaters in Belgrade and check how much different the NL experience is. With just about every other bird I had one of those “wow” moments. A Little Stint awaited me there this morning.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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In the most of Europe, Brown Bear is a mythical creature that lives only in mediaeval tapestries and folk tales. Our guides were researchers from Callisto, patient and always smiling Yannis Tsanakis (above) and Maria Petridou with her infectious laugh and stories of her Sun Bear and Jaguar research experiences. Not at all.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America. This is where they got their name. According to R.D. ca 1630–1647. Crawford, R.D.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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Snowy Owls are used in falconry, more so in Europe but they are legal for a few states here in the US. They are going to watch the situation but one told me that this man has hunted with a wild snowy several years ago, so he’s had experience working with them.

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Beaten by an Angry Bird

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He has seen them before in Cape Town, but those were introduced and feral birds, while in the Balkans they are indigenous and – countable! Worried that such experience might traumatise young Spongebob, I held the paddle as an obstacle, pointed at the angry bird. Well, for me – no, but for Nicolaas, Mute Swans were a lifer species.

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