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Europe’s Brown Warblers: a map through the maze

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Now, it is perfectly okay that your hands are starting to feel sweaty, and we therefore should first go for an easy elimination to keep calm: Is the bird only the size of a House Sparrow or does it approach a Turdus -Thrush. I am pretty sure this is a migrant Blyth’s, seen in Kazakhstan in May. Option two: abandon bird.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum. His underlying point should be well taken by all of us: Birders and bird-educators could have an impact on the future of the Refuge System.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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These Blasts From The Past Striped Basilisk Lizard Lore Herps in Rockland County and Orange County Diamondback Terrapin at Jamaica Bay The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) Lizards of Kazakhstan About the Author Dale Forbes Dale got his first pair of binoculars for a very early birthday after his dad realized that it was the only way to be left in peace.

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. We’ll give Duncan a pass on this one… A sparrow? Yes, Dragan chose a sparrow. Another sparrow? Sedge Wren !

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