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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Oh, cheeky me left out another alternative for both cases, which brings us right to the origin of these sayings: the devil. This model was very popular in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s and it was commonly called “Ente“ (duck) due to its round hood. You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls.

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Godwits are bad ambassadors of conservation

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Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. Birds Germany godwits shorebirds' As a matter of fact, one might surmise that I have merely instrumantalized a few images of a wet magpie to let loose a relentless rant about our weather.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. Also, pecks that followed right-eye detection were more likely to be successful than pecks that followed left-eye detection, as evinced by the occurrence of swallowing after pecking ( source ).

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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I may have said this before, but thrushes always remind me a bit of German housewives – robust and reliable, but not particularly graceful (there is a reason I live in China and not in Germany). I do not have anything interesting to say about the Red-flanked Bluetail right now, but the male is a very beautiful bird.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

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Changing tastes in beer, now leaning towards more modern flavors imported from Britain and Germany – as well as the privations of two world wars – only seemed to seal the fate of saison. In the postwar years, the style was hanging on as an arcane regional specialty, brewed by an ever-shrinking number of small producers.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry.

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A Problem with Gulls

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To recap however, grouping them by their slight variation in body size between 53 and 67cm in length (21 to 26in): The biggest two are Yellow-legged and Caspian gulls, distinguishable by the presence or absence of brightly-colored (yellow) legs. Wicked, right? at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or I am clearly not.

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