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Birding the road from Kabul to Jalalabad

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Alternative transportation options would have included traveling on a truck like this one. Now, I normally do not take photos of tanks (I did do alternative service in Germany rather than serve the mandatory time in the army), but I made an exception for this one. One of the sights is an old Russian tank.

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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

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Jochen Roeder, a former fellow 10,000 Birds writer who lives in Germany, says according to EU nature conservation directives it’s illegal to cut down trees during the spring and summer unless they are checked by an expert for nesting birds or resting bats. 4) Dream of the European model. No wildlife rescue required. Ah, Europe!

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Into an Uncertain Future

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We, the people of Germany, have had enough of this nonsense. The crucial factor limiting the maximum baggage is the transport of the entire German population to their new home in the central Saharan desert regions of southern Algeria, Mali and Niger by camel. Birds Germany magpies weather' No seriously.

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St. Michael’s summer birding along the Danube in Serbia

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Yet, this is also a part of the international cycling route from Germany to the Black Sea. They are colourful and small, some mere newspaper kiosks transported here, barely big enough for a bed and fishing rods.

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Perth Hills National Parks

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The scheme was devised by C Y O’Connor who was an Irish engineer and steel was brought to Western Australia from both Germany and the United States of America and when the pipeline was completed it was the longest fresh water pipe in the world. Perth from the Darling escarpment.

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