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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. It was only the first in a series of such cargoes. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Bird Conservancy, and other groups teamed up to translocate 50 of the birds to another island, Laysan.

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What Winter Wonders Wait?

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Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge–East Pond. 02 Dec 2019. 27 Dec 2019.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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Document WEC257 of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida / IFAS, [link]. ** Pruett-Jones, Stephen, et al. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. and Sam Logue. Florida’s Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus). Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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German Birding Blitz

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From the time he can remember, every camping, hiking, or simple trip outside was focused on finding wildlife with herps, mammals, birds and native fish as his primary interests. Andy Avram is a lifelong resident of northeastern Ohio, just east of Cleveland. Either that or having family friends in Germany.