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Finding Dippers in Berlin

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This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. You see, we get two different subspecies of dippers in Germany.

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds is his account of the centrality of birds in all of these endeavors, and in his life.

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Birding Singapore

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Please keep that in mind if you ever think that Germany’s only contributions to the world are highways and world wars. Sonntag means Sunday in German, and so the name was translated to Sunday, and later spelled as “sundae”.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I don’t necessarily advocate vegetarianism, but those looking to improve the sustainability of their lifestyles should take a look at their diet. Nadia Eghbal Tübingen, Germany, May 26, 2008 Reducing meat consumption, particularly of beef, is one of the simplest and most rewarding things we can do.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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Reading the title, I feared you had succumbed to the “hook & bullet&# lifestyle of the Rockies and now carried a very, very big-calibered gun with you. In Germany, they occur throughout but are considerably rarer e.g. around the Baltic or Berlin than they are in the SW. @Nicole: Glad you liked it!

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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However, they sometimes claim to be the national bird of Germany due to their black-red-yellow color combination – this is not true. So, if a German senior citizen is called by a Common Moorhen asking for money on account of it being the national bird of Germany, it is a scam. Their chicks are kind of cute though.

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