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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

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I therefore decided to counter this month’s heinous wood-warbler attack on my retina by choosing the good old trusty House Sparrow as the topic of my May post. The last aspect is something I will elaborate on further below, but not before showing off a prime fine male House Sparrow, unethically photographed at its nest site.

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The Supremacy of the Booted Warbler

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Within Kazakhstan , it is found widely and commonly in the northern half of this beautiful country. Additionally, you can find the Booted Warbler in the extensive online gallery of birds.kz , which comes in handy when you don’t have immediate plans of visiting the northern half of Kazakhstan. Did you hear that? Did you hear that?

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Europe’s Brown Warblers: a map through the maze

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So easy a group it is not even worth blogging about. This group is so incredibly easy that even I have decided to elaborate on their identification in this post. I am pretty sure this is a migrant Blyth’s, seen in Kazakhstan in May. I’ll leave those for a possible future post. Option two: abandon bird. Good enough.

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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. at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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These Blasts From The Past Striped Basilisk Lizard Lore Herps in Rockland County and Orange County Diamondback Terrapin at Jamaica Bay The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) Lizards of Kazakhstan About the Author Dale Forbes Dale got his first pair of binoculars for a very early birthday after his dad realized that it was the only way to be left in peace.

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Jochen’s 2014 Year List

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In a funny twist of fate, it seems that 2014 will be much the same as 2012 and 2013 have been, with family trips to somewhere in France and business trips to Indonesia and Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan: Mangghystau province at the Caspian Sea shore, probably in May. House Sparrow Passer domesticus : Fournes, Provence, France, 1 Jan.

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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We’ll give Duncan a pass on this one… A sparrow? Yes, Dragan chose a sparrow. Rock Sparrow Petronia petronia – small, non-descript and even harder to spot – at the Kerkini Lake in Greece in April: We were hastily getting out of the van and, at the same time, it took N. – Another sparrow? Sedge Wren !

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