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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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The Cry of the Curlew

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The day before I photographed Yellow 1M I’d read a fascinating article in the weekly magazine Shooting Times , written by Liam Bell, head gamekeeper on a family-owned estate in South Shropshire, not far from the Welsh border.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species. Readers of this site already know about this extraordinary place from Dragan’s evocative post of November 2018, “ The 701 Long-eared Owls of Kikinda.”)

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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According to one paper , the Spotted Redshank is the German among the waders, at least in Finland: its arrival and departure on the breeding grounds are the most predictable. Then again, that is probably the length of summer in Finland. Family ties are important. And to end this post, a mammal.

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Birding Sweden on the Fly

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In June of 2013 he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe, spotting birds in Iceland , Russia , Finland , and, as you’re about to find out, Sweden: We took a quick flight from Helsinki and arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, arriving at our fourth country on this trip. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in the park that sunny day.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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While mainly an Asian bird, the Red-flanked Bluetail has recently been seen in parts of Europe (particularly Finland and Scotland) more frequently, indicating a possible range extension ( source ). Like this bird family b. If you want to signal to your environment that you a. Like bad jokes and c.

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