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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). It does indeed look like a racket – not a tennis one but a hockey one.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

10,000 Birds

I enjoy falconry, it’s not merely a sport or hobby, it is a lifestyle. If you are a bad hunting partner and do not flush enough game, the raptor will fly off when released and not return. I think what bothered me most was that I knew how angry birders get about owls and that this would be bad PR for falconry.

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