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Kamikaze Pigeons and a War to Extinction

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This time it is not in Serbia, but in Zurich, Switzerland, where this particular Serbian pigeon fancier / blogger lives. Conservation Peregrine Falcon poisoning Serbia Switzerland' v=8kKoL3sdbaQ. And all we have are strong suspicions, but no hard evidence.

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Everything new is Old (World) again

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One of the groups that doesn’t seem to become any less common in fall is the T**s, known in North America as Chickadees and their relatives. One sang very insistently outside our lodgings in Interlaken, Switzerland. If I saw a large raptor, it was a Common Buzzard ; unless its very long wings and notched tail revealed a Red Kite.

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Are Redpolls Just One Species?

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In all, the duo compared DNA from 77 redpolls, including specimens from museums around the world, from the Museum of Vertebrates at Cornell University to the Natural History Museum of Geneva in Switzerland. They found no DNA variation that distinguishes Hoary Redpolls from Common Redpolls.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo.

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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

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The Italian Sparrow is not entirely confined to Italy but – not surprisingly – also occurs in neighbouring areas of Austria and Switzerland. These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia.

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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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But, the numbers are quite large, and the birds organized in groupings that, for the most part, make it an easy process to figure out which Antwren (or Woodcreeper or Seedeater) is which. ” The book in question is Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide , edited and written by Sebastian K.

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