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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido

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On the one hand, they are very easy to see in Germany, swimming in public parks or teaching pensioners how to eat bread. To be honest, I never cared too much for swans. On the other hand, their white color and their considerable size made me see them as somewhat arrogant birds – the white Golf convertible of the bird world.

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Hooded Crow in Staten Island, New York

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Prior to that trip to Kazakhstan the only other time I had seen Hooded Crows was in Germany in 2007, when my best looks at a Hooded Crow were along the shore of the Baltic Sea. Happily for me the traffic wasn’t heavy and I made it to Great Kills Park in almost no time.

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Into an Uncertain Future

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We, the people of Germany, have had enough of this nonsense. May 2013 was the wettest May on record, like… ever, with extreme flood events that even killed people. Birds Germany magpies weather' No seriously. March 2013 was the coldest March in more than 100 years. April 2013 was extremely dry and also unusually cold.

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Godwits are bad ambassadors of conservation

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In Germany, it is a very polarizing species, as it is very common on the North Sea shore – where it breeds – but a scarce visitor to the rest of the country, making it a bird so fair and foul to a mixed group of birders as you’ll ever see. Birds Germany godwits shorebirds'

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Birding a monastery: Zhaga, Western Sichuan

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Upon learning about my background, he asked me whether we have Yaks in Germany. On the way from the monastery to our next destination, we picked up a monk hitchhiking back to his monastery. He was from the area but had apparently been traveling to India to see the Dalai Lama.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Study Claims Islamic Slaughtering More Humane

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The Islamic practice of slaughtering animals by means of a sharp cut to the front of the neck has frequently come under attack by some animal rights activists as being a form of animal cruelty, the claim being that it is a painful inhumane method of killing animals. Tags: islam Slaughterhouse Germany cows.

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