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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

10,000 Birds

Low Bing Wen is a terrestrial ecologist and a keen birdwatcher with more than 20 years of field experience in Southeast Asia, India, China and Australasia. Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom. I do not think it is possible to pack more in a single volume, without turning it into a coffee table book. Book information.

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Landfill by Tim Dee: Review

10,000 Birds

” Landfill often made me wander off into some half-forgotten gulling experience of mine. Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. Caspian gulls have a strange quality: they’re more aggressive than herring gulls but also I think more beautiful.” Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages.

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How a Farrier can treat a horse with club foot

4 The Love Of Animals

In the United Kingdom, farriers need to be registered according to the Farriers (Registration) Act of 1975. Many organizations exist throughout the United Kingdom to assist farriers and people desiring to be farriers to become registered and remain well educated through classes, training and competitions.

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Birding the Rainforest Canopy

10,000 Birds

These included Sunbird (United Kingdom), Birding Ecotours (South Africa), Aviatur (Colombia), and two teams from the USA; FieldGuides and Surbound Expeditions. Adam and Tim are experienced Florida birders with varying degrees of experience when birding the Tropical Rainforests.

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Back from the Second Birding Rally Challenge in Northern Peru

10,000 Birds

Teams were composed of experience birders in their respective countries, but levels of expertise among birders varied from those with plenty of experience in the Neotropics, including some of the authors of the book “The Birds of Peru” to those for whom coming to Peru was their first time in Latin America. Photo: Peru Birding Rally.

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Manx Shearwaters

10,000 Birds

Its first flight will take it from its burrow, usually on the west coast of the United Kingdom, to the coast of South America, an extraordinary journey for an unaccompanied minor. The shearwaters make good subjects for homing experiments. As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. Here’s the idea. Here, the crows are initially very jittery, frequently inspecting the hole of mystery. Taylor, Alex, Miller, Rachael, & Gray, Russell (2012).

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