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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.

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Greece: Oliver the Husky

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We're waiting for more information the next week! Only human hands are possible to do such things! And that's not the worst part since there are various witness and no one is talking! link] submitted by /u/Interesting_Candle82 [link] [comments]

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

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He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park. From the macro to the micro level, I found that the information provided, while copious and often informative, could have been laid out better. The book’s weaknesses are mainly in the organization of the text.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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A recent study of a multiyear, peer-reviewed research project, conducted in Texas, indicate dove hunters using shotshells loaded with lead pellets enjoy no advantage in effectiveness over those using shotshells firing non-toxic steel pellets of similar or slightly larger size.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. It has changed the way we communicate and how we share and gather information. In the birding world, it has made sharing sightings easier.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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Starlings and Eagles

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To gather vital information that could make the difference between a thriving Golden Eagle population and a declining one. Sara, one of the researchers, explained that it was a newish bird. Any bird that was wounded — and a bander could often prevent that fate by firing the net quickly enough — was nursed back to health.

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