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Birding Yibin, Sichuan

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Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. Another person nobody should ever have named a bird after.

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The Cry of the Curlew

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Her long beak indicates that she is a female An email to Tony Cross of the Mid Wales Ringing Group brought a speedy reply. A quick check on the internet revealed that there was an on-going colour ringing project taking place in Wales, and it seemed most likely that this was where my bird had been ringed.

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The Thin Black Line

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Flamingos find love in groups, and their courtship ritual always requires relatively large gatherings. The group to the left is still caught in the head-shaking phase. The black tip to a flamingo’s bill means business – reproductive business. Of course not!

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece. Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety.

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Birding Senegal: Costco ads and Scissor-tailed Kites

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As this is a roost site, the best time to take this journey is also the hottest part of the day and with the difficulty of slogging through the mud with caked boots, I contemplated telling my group to continue without me. You better have CFA (West African Francs). And then driving in Senegal?

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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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In parts of Western Europe, it is considered to be “exotic” because it has been introduced, possibly by anglers, in lakes and rivers in France and the Iberian Peninsula. During this study, all the pigeon predation was observed on one small island where the birds grouped to preen and drink. It is sometimes known as the European Catfish.

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