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The area is used as a hunting ground for large raptors including the White-bellied Sea-Eagle and Brahminy Kite. It is almost the same size as its parents and although it has a red bill it remains dark at the tip. In recent years there have been Pied Oystercatchers attempting to breed along the shores of Roebuck Bay.

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They have an extremely long bill, that is two toned, showing a darken tip all year round. Once the tide has gone out, then they hunt for the many fine meals that are hidden under the surface of the mud. This blueish-gray bird has a bright white belly, and white stripe that runs up the front of the neck.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

The sighting suggests that for all its struggles with habitat loss and hunting, the species is still managing to reproduce. Fortunately, scientists now have proof that the bird, which lives only on two Samoan islands and is distantly related to the Dodo , isn’t yet extinct. Image of newly discovered juvenile Manumea by Moe Ulli).

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Samoa Bald Eagle Campaign Hunting 168

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Though in terms of aesthetics, their nests are not much to look at – a paper (in Thai, but with an English summary) describes the nest as “a bulky, untidy ball hanging from the tip of a branch of stick with an average height of 1.39 The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

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JULY 5, 2013

Hat tip to Clare M. The project recruited schoolkids from eight Asian nations, from Russia down to Thailand, to help color in frames of an animation that depicts the lonely and perilous migration of a Spoon-billed Sandpiper as it faces threats from habitat loss and hunting. for the scoop!)

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Asia Thailand Russia Endangered Species 145

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MARCH 10, 2022

Pity, it is the sleeping hours and not the hunting (morning/evening), but at least they are not forced to socialise with people all day. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. Yes, animals are guaranteed some time free of the camera-snapping crowds. Fanatical – from dawn till dusk.

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India Birds Africa Game 221

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. This deeply weird bird represents the very tip of the spear of Uganda’s wildlife tourism sector, currently considered the country’s largest and most significant export. The mighty Shoebill.

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Uganda Africa Birds Penguins 252

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

A pair of Yellow Warblers hunted insects in the canopy, and a Northern Waterthrush did the same just over the surface of the water. Skirting around the international airport to the mangroves on its eastern end, we picked up Brown-crested Flycatcher and even more Barred Antshrikes. A Spectacled Thrush foraged among the leaf litter.

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Falcons Trinidad Ducks Groups 229

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Might have something to do with the fact that they were hunted here until quite recently). Tip for photographers not only of birds: Turning a photo into black-and-white will make it look like art, particularly when the subject is decay. On the other hand, by now he would surely be dead anyway.

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South Africa Africa India China 196

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. of its hunts are successful. On one occasion, he tried catching a cobra by the tail and got bitten on the tip of finger which he slashed with a pocket knife. Back to birds. Then, there are raptors.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 206

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MAY 28, 2012

.” Eastern Kingbirds are dark above, white below, and boast a distinctive white-tipped tail. They both perch hunt and hover hunt and will even hop along the ground in pursuit of prey. They both perch hunt and hover hunt and will even hop along the ground in pursuit of prey.

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Hunting Kittens South America United States 187

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MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Suggestions are offered at the end of each chapter—yes, there are still “tips”! Within the framework of sharing the joy, the tips become gifts from friends. White and Jeffrey A.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 133

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JANUARY 7, 2012

Today an adult bird was hunting while two juvenile birds waited, knee-deep in water, apparently unclear what to do next. The adult bird had had some success and stopped hunting in favour of a dip. Using the ubiquitous Great Egret as a reference, the Goliath Heron is half a meter taller (from bill-tip to toe) and four times as heavy.

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

My experience of Common Nighthawks had previously been at dusk as they begin hunting for the night. The white wingbar of a Lesser Nighthawk is usually visible beyond the tips of the tertials. His good company was surpassed only by his keen eye that picked out a Mangrove Cuckoo lifer for me and a roosting Common Nighthawk.

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Miami Florida Hunting Breeding 166

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APRIL 11, 2012

There cannot be many ABA area breeding birds harder to get than those that only breed on the remotest tips of the north of North America and then fly off to places that aren’t on the major continental flyways. Among the threats are low level hunting in its winter range, introduced species and possibly gold mining in its breeding range.

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North America Fiji Hawaii America 177

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

White-chinned Petrels are tube-nosed birds Adam Riley Unlike all other birds which have nostrils at the base of the bill, the kiwis from New Zealand, have them located at the bill tip. This is particularly useful for a bird with small eyes that hunts under the soil surface at night.

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Birds Mammals Mozambique New Zealand 208

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

His host’s house was smoke-blackened, everything but his shiny hunting rifles. Still, this was a hunting chase and not the proper ecotourism, but B. The story goes, after the coffee at the first homestead, he visited the neighbour’s, where he had a tsipouro (or two – in itself, a reason enough to travel to Greece).

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Bears San Jose Greece Costa Rica 135

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Fortunately, they were easy to spot hunting for snails over the marshy margins of the lake though their range left me with unsatisfying pictures. Cloud on the southern edge of East Lake Tohopekaliga, which the locals call East Lake Toho, and our final birding destination for our central Florida run, Kaliga Park.

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Florida Birds Wildlife Hunting 151

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. They are distributed from the southern tip of Africa (still occurring in the suburbs of Cape Town!)

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 195

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JANUARY 7, 2014

This was a state bird for me, so even if the skua hunt proved to be a failure, this made it worth it for me. I was following along all morning with people’s well-wishes in the hunt and Ned Brinkley’s fantastic skua-finding tips. But admiring this little gull was selfish. They’r eeasy to miss.

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North Carolina Birds Hunting Albatross 171

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

That would be only the tip of the iceberg since the power line was built in the 1950s and has probably caused the death of hundreds if not thousands of Egyptian Vultures (source: BSPB). Neighbouring (FYRO) Macedonia nowadays has about 20 pairs, while two decades ago they had 135! Reasons for this situation are numerous.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 218

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I’m going to let you in on a pro tip. When looking for gloves, hand warmers, any kind of out door gear for an unexpected weather issue, look for the big box store that has a hunting section–like a Fleet Farm. Hunting sections will always have gloves, wool socks, bug spray–all sorts of handy tools.

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Birds North Dakota Florida Soreing 258

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MARCH 7, 2012

The biggest threats to their continued survival in the wilderness are habitat destruction and hunting, for both food and for the pet trade (though they are not considered in the least bit endangered). Green Iguanas range from southern Mexico and the Caribbean islands to South America and are relatively common.

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New York Reptiles Eggs South America 165

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MARCH 5, 2013

I thought it would be interesting to look at selections of the Stokes’ description of the falcon, which is listed in both guides: Shape in Flight: Very large, heavy-bodied, broad-necked falcon, tail very broad and moderately long, wings fairly long and broad-based for a falcon; outer wings taper to blunt tip. Thinner mustache.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 152

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APRIL 26, 2013

Still, the tip was all I needed to jump online and do some quick research (and all praises to the internet for making such things possible!) Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors.

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Sparrows St. Louis Kansas City Kansas 164

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JUNE 3, 2015

Leaving from the border town of Kasane we meandered westwards along the northern edge of the massive Chobe National Park to our left and the far eastern tip of Namibia’s Caprivi Strip. I bring this up because birding the Chobe River in northern Botswana gave me the interesting opportunity to bird a country I technically wasn’t in.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

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MARCH 15, 2011

These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Deer 2011 New York New York Times 124

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

This can also come in the form of crowdsourcing identification tips on unknown birds. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. For birders and nature photographers, this includes “likes,” and comments like “great shot,” and “terrific capture.”

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Ethics Owls New York North America 136

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MAY 20, 2014

They packed up in June of 2013 and headed south from San Diego with the southern tip of South America as their destination. Kathi Borgmann and Josh Beck are living the dream of many a North American birder.

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Guatemala Mexico San Diego South America 162

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MARCH 14, 2011

Say Hello to the South Hill Crossbill Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere 3 Million Page Views! Hat-tip to Stella. Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

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MARCH 30, 2012

Like several of my favorite NWRs, this one was established as a haven for migratory birds, most notably waterfowl, during the bad old days when uncontrolled hunting and habitat loss had put the future of even species we now think of as common in doubt. As a result, early migration season is an excellent time to visit.

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Wildlife Montana Geese Bald Eagle 165

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MARCH 14, 2011

Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Hat-tip to Stella. &# Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:18 pm [.] 1 – Paradise in PortugalTsunami Pics from Midway AtollDoes This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?Duck

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 168

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MAY 3, 2022

My particular favorite terns were the Sandwich Terns, a bird I rarely see in any numbers and just generally good looking with that natty yellow-tipped bill. Some days Snowy Plovers (but no Piping Plovers) were sighted; while we saw mostly Caspian Terns, some afternoons Royal Terns predominated the numbers.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 201

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9: A New Week, A New Quiz Waxwing Working a String Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Black is Back In Praise of Bionic Condors About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 203

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Trumpeter Swans above, for example, winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley, where Hashimoto “attempted to capture the low light and soft grays of winter,” while also rejoicing in this conservation success story–in the early 1960’s the swan numbers in the Valley were down to 15 due to hunting, they now number 11,000.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 143

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MAY 8, 2012

In 2010, a remarkable and previously unrecorded phenomenon occurred when thousands upon thousands of African Openbills appeared from nowhere and spread throughout South Africa, even to the far southern tip of the continent and remote Karoo semi-desert regions where they had never been recorded before.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 233

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JANUARY 22, 2015

He has earned his tip. The Osprey tries another hunt, finally a successful one, while Telia goes deeper into the water and lies down. Our guide is standing on his seat, scanning the area with binoculars. All of a sudden, in a hushed voice he says one word only: “Tigers!” We have met the daughters of Telia, the Tigress of the Lake.

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