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Varied Sittellas at Langi Crossing

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Presbycusis is age-related hearing loss in humans, but I have also discovered that birds, fish and amphibians do not experience presbycusis due to the fact that they can regenerate their cochlear sensory cells. Invariably it doesn’t take long and we find what I had already heard.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of September 2018)

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Corey spent the weekend visiting his folks upstate and suffering from the symptoms of food poisoning. He thinks at one point he heard a Fish Crow , so that must be his Best Bird of the Weekend. Mostly what he looked at was the inside of his own eye lids and the interior of bathrooms. How about you?

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Great Crested Grebe

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Redgannet’s repeated attempts to eat stuff that was bigger than his own head brought exasperated warnings from his long-suffering mother. Perch are a fresh water species of fish that are native to Europe and N. I used to fish for perch and know them to be a spiky character. Now, the Great Crested Grebe and the perch.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. Fish and Wildlife service estimates that there are 16 million “active birders” in the United States, though that figure is likely orders of magnitude too high.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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This is a juvenile Grey-headed Fish Eagle , unless it is another fish eagle like the Lesser (the lack of any grey head makes me doubt the identification a bit, but it seems juveniles cannot afford a grey head yet). A Crested Serpent Eagle , looking a bit ridiculous after a rain.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that the coastal subspecies was actually a subspecies. CESAR had alleged that Dr. Zink would suffer professional and reputational injuries because FWS rejected his research, but the court found that inadequate. As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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