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MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

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JULY 9, 2014

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

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JULY 3, 2018

government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. The Flame Bowerbird, for example. Mostly adult males.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

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JANUARY 7, 2014

Larks, for example. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines.

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