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Into an Uncertain Future

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So there you go, Europe! The crucial factor limiting the maximum baggage is the transport of the entire German population to their new home in the central Saharan desert regions of southern Algeria, Mali and Niger by camel. As a matter of fact, it is getting worse by the day. Leaving the European Union is not an easy task.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

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They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s. Little Cormorant Phalacrocorax niger. Indian Peafowl Pavo cristatus. Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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Heidelberg university campus, Niger, Rajasthan – they’re all the same! Yes, the Egyptian Geese there are countable. Schloßpark Neckarhausen (“palace gardens of Neckarhausen”) with a few birds, but the gardens are small, so one shouldn’t miss them. The rose ring of the Rose-ringed. And the black chin.

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What is killing birds at Karla Lake (Greece)?

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Before it was drained for agriculture in 1962, Lake Karla covered 180 km2 / 70 mi2 – a good portion of the eastern Thessaly Plain and was among the largest wetlands of Europe (visit the Management Body of the lake’s GIS platform ). Black Tern – Chlidonias niger 15. Now I can say I was. Common Tern – Sterna hirundo 6.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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Shelves of feeders to choose from, ranging from inexpensive tubes to porcelain sculptures; bags and barrels of shelled and unshelled seed, including something called variously thistle, nyjer or niger; guidelines on when, how, where to do the actual feeding. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

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