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Come See Birds and…Everything

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For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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Snow in the Air

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For all that, though, migration here is still largely a water-based show, with the most spectacular signs of springs coming in the forms of ducks, geese, and swans. Several locations in the state, most notably Freezeout Lake, are graced with epic spring migrations of Snow Geese and Tundra Swans as they return north along the Pacific Flyway.

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Comebackers

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Aleutian Cackling Geese on Buldir Island, Alaska, where they made their final stand. Aleutian Cackling Geese are another bird very familiar with the Pacific; they are the only species of goose that nest on Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. Half Moon Bay, CA.

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Parry’s Lagoon Nature Reserve

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Crocodile warning As you walk out towards the hide the birdlife is not the least bit bothered about any human activity and remains along the water’s edge. Buff-banded Rail There were only four Australian Pelicans in the area that we could see and they spent most of the hours that we were in the hide busy trying to find food.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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The Lesser White-fronted Goose is not only rare in Serbia, but also overlooked among numerous Greater White-fronted Geese. Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus. In my native Serbia, pelicans are only vagrants, although in the under-birded southeast, they may be more common than we think. Dalmatian Pelican by Sebastian Bugariu.

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An Unfortunate Pewee

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PCBs have been linked to major health problems in animals and humans alike…it is also worth noting almost all of it used in the United States was produced by everyone’s favorite corporation, Monsanto. I think the modified Clark’s Nutcracker looks pretty rad, but the American White Pelican is a major bummer.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Anhingas and darters , cormorants and shags , frigatebirds , gannets and boobies , pelicans , and the tropicbirds all share a characteristic found in no other living bird: Their feet are totipalmate.

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