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Top 10 Rarest Big Cats ( Pantherines , Acinoyx and Puma )

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South China Tiger Maybe few or Extinct in the Wild ? submitted by /u/Character-Sorbet-718 [link] [comments]

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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2)

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Given the situation of women in Iran, it was probably a bad idea for a female Black-naped Monarch to show up in the country, as described here.

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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Given the political situation in Iran, Eurasian Bullfinches rarely go there – and if they do, it is a cause for a scientific paper. Luckily for them, they do not need helicopters for this trip.

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Bring back the Blue Tit

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The noble Blue Tit once ranged from Iran through Turkey and Europe to the Canary Islands (the Spanish Islands off North Africa – the other bird was named for the islands incidentally) and North Africa. But a split has annoyed me. A nice, compact, descriptive and above all long standing and widely known name has been… complicated.

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It feels like spring….

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Do try and get it right) is found from the Canary Islands to India; in the Middle East it is found in oases and dry barely vegetated wadis like the one I saw them in, in the drier areas of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE and Iran. A whole bunch coming for a drink.

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The Search for the Holy Grail

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The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders. Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family.

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The Lake of Beasts: Kerkini, Greece

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And the target was a Western Rock Nuthatch (above), a species that lives from the Balkans east to Iran, which cooperatively called for attention from the wall the very moment I got there. Kerkini Factfile. Lake Kerkini National Park lies at 35 m / 115 ft a.s.l.

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