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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

Would it worry you to sit next to me on a plane or train and listen to this kind of information for several hours? If you take a feral pigeon, bleach it and then batik it using the right colors, the result might be a Pink-necked Green Pigeon (1). Well, you could always pretend to fall asleep. Or move to another seat.

Singapore 242
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Château de Colombe: Bordeaux Rosé (2017)

10,000 Birds

Whether their authors are scrutinizing this pink wine’s recent rise as a millennial obsession in clickbait lifestyle pieces, lamenting its fate as the perennial victim of wine snob invective, or endeavoring to discredit the many myths that surround this underappreciated style, come June, it’s rosés, rosés, all the way.

2017 116
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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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I enjoy falconry, it’s not merely a sport or hobby, it is a lifestyle. All the training with the bird is based on positive reinforcement. The previous snowy was a good hunter but unfortunately that owl caught a feral pigeon that had frounce and died not long afterwards–something that could happen with a wild snowy.

Wisconsin 254