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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

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Nat Geo Wild is airing an amazing show tonight called Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! It is home to some of the most concentrated and diverse shark populations in the world, including species with a reputation for attacking people, such as great white, bull, tiger, black tip, ragged tooth and dusky sharks. Bodily fluids.

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Young Thrushes

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This gave us several chances to experience them at various stages of growth. It may seem like a grown bird, but the rufous tips on the wing coverts of this Cocoa Thrush tell us it is still in its first year of life. Back in Trinidad, both Spectacled Thrush and Cocoa Thrush would nest in our backyard. Wise creatures.

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Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

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Coupled with its geologic youth, this makes the southern tip of the state function as a bit of an island experiment. Humans have also participated in this process by introducing a long list of birds such as Egyptian Goose , Purple Swamphen , and Common Myna.

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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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It proved strong enough to take the many knocks and falls that a hard-used scope experiences during its lifetime. Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) Tough, easy to use, great optics – there wasn’t much not to like about the Swarovski except one thing: it was heavy, tipping the scales at around 2000gm.

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Flock to Marion

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After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature. Salvin’s Prion. and seabirders.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Though in terms of aesthetics, their nests are not much to look at – a paper (in Thai, but with an English summary) describes the nest as “a bulky, untidy ball hanging from the tip of a branch of stick with an average height of 1.39 My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets.

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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

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In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna. The Red-fan Parrot breaks the mold by having elongated red feathers with purple tips that it can erect to form a spectacular mane around the head.

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