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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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The status of its preferred wetlands throughout the year dictates movements that often results in a nomadic lifestyle. The Andean Flamingo is now protected under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. They produce an annual newsletter to tell readers the current status of several species.

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The Top 25 Target Birds to Look for in Costa Rica

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It would be uber cool to lay eyes on a rare lifer, on species that only seem to live on the pages of a field guide but isn’t that somewhat discriminatory? And why spend time only looking for one or two species when those hours could be used to put binos focused on a few dozen? Aren’t all birds worth watching?

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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. “Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US. Nicole: Glad you liked it!

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City Guide: Finding Birds in Belgrade

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and am not a lifestyle writer to comment on those claims. I am a birder and I can claim that out of Serbia’s total of 350+ bird species, highly urbanised inner city areas of Belgrade hold almost 100 birds, while the outskirts have more than 200 species. The question is, where to see them? Getting there: City bus 95 and 94.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

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In trying to find further evidence of the warbler’s behaviour and the sapsucker’s lifestyle, I found numerous mentions of Rufous Hummingbirds and “other species” coming to feed from sap wells. Does he vigorously defend his food source? Do warblers regularly visit sap wells?

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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These sorts of tests have been done in many species and it has always been assumed (hoped), that what they found in the little white cages at the back of the zoology department had some wonderful relevance to what happened in the real world. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. Makes sense really.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species! In the HBW, there are about 40 species with the word “plain” in the species name.

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