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Juniper, plagues, and waxwings – Arrowood Farm-Brewery: Waxwing Juniper Farmhouse Ale

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A pair of Pestvogelen : Bohemian Waxwings ( Bombycilla garrulus ) from Nederlandsche vogelen (“ Dutch Birds” ) by naturalist and illustrator Cornelius Nozeman (1720-1786) and Christiaan Andreas Sepp (1700-1775) and Jan Christiaan Sepp (1739-1811) of the famous Amsterdam publishing family.

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White Storks Everywhere

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And as much as I’ve deplored the tendency to anthropomorphise the family lives of birds , this is one instance where I have to believe it’s worked solidly to avian advantage: seeing the birds tending their nests day in and day out tends to build up warm feelings. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Off to listen to some Rana sylvatica in the woods.

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Waterfowl of North America, Europe & Asia: An Identification Guide

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But, as with many avian families, the more you look, the more complicated it gets. And, it is a guide based on scholarship as well as field work (author Reeber has monitored the birds of the Lac of Grand-Lieu, France, for the National Society for Nature Protection (SNPN) since 1994). There are the females, so many so brown.

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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I found this out last year, on a trip to France with my daughter Sarah. I did notice that many French dragonflies depicted on the Internet (at least those from northern and central France) are also found in Great Britain. There are many more British species that resemble ours, but belong to different subfamilies or even families.

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