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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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The reservoir is surrounded by traditional farming landscape, adding the European Turtle Dove and the Ortolan Bunting to the scene. Local rarities include mouth-watering birds such as Dalmatian Pelican , Slavonian Grebe , Ruddy Turnstone , Asian Desert Warbler , Moustached Warbler and the Calandra Lark. eBird bar chart. #4

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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Turtle bites hurt!”. “I I was trying to give a Brown Pelican subcutaneous fluids with a 60 cc syringe and an 18 gauge needle by myself,” says Stephanie Whitbeck Kadletz. “I Needless to say the pelican jerked and the needle went straight through my thumb and stuck out the other side. “I threw him off and ran for a broom.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA. What do you think?

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. Madagascar Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia picturata. European Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia turtur. Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. ???–?????? 27 Jul 2018.

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