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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

10,000 Birds

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Pelican, Pelecanus spp.

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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

10,000 Birds

It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Though the boat departed from Nassau County we strayed into Queens for a good portion of the trip. Short-eared Owl – Finally, a bird that I saw!

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