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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) I was placed one year with a photograph of little egrets, taken at Kerkini in Greece, while the following year I won the class with a shot of Wryneck, photographed in an orchard in Poland ( above ). A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Perhaps it’s because the topic is so huge, it’s difficult to comprehend in a systematic way. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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