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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient. How surprising.

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Ruppy the glowing puppy

4 The Love Of Animals

Ruppy and four other beagles are the first dogs to glow, though the experiment has taken place in other animals. They do their work at the Seoul National University in South Korea. The team of scientists are hopeful that the creation of fluorescent puppies will help aid further research in human diseases.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

10,000 Birds

I photographed this Guianan Cock-of-the-rock at a lek site near Surama, deep in the rainforest zone of Guyana, and my incredible experience with Andean Cock-of-the-rocks was at a display lek on the edge of the town of Jardin, in the coffee-belt of Colombia, both just incredible birds that make the heart soar with joy!

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