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Experiencing Spring at EVOA

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My plan was to do research for this post, so I decided to enter as a common mortal and not use the electronic pass. Interestingly, a bird of prey set off a psychological experiment. Case in point: former emperor of Japan, His Majesty Akihito, is an avid birder. I decided to go back to the Lezírias and specifically, visit EVOA.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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GARBO TALKS!

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And now, researchers from Japan, Germany and Sweden confirmed what I knew all the time, like if I needed them to tell me so. They explained that Japanese Great T**s “experience a number of threats, and in response to predators, they give a variety of different calls. Conservation research tits

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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of December 2012?

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Nature lovers who love to travel know that few experiences are more enjoyable than preparation for a big trip. The mundane details that actually allow a trip to happen are tedious, but researching all those potential birds… huge fun! Because I’ll be birding Japan this weekend en route to Singapore!

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How I dipped the Horned Grebe

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In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively). …or, how critical are you in twitch or dip situations?

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

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According to Reuters: Japan, which considers whaling to be a cherished cultural tradition, killed 679 minke whales despite plans to catch around 850. research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments.