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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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From a birder’s perspective however, this is both a shame and a blessing, as I will show below based on my observations of the species on the island of Java in November. The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Other birders might however owe their very lives to this neglect.

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After The Birds Of Summer Have Gone

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It is the featureless nature of the sea of blue, spanning from horizon to horizon, its neglect of offering a foothold to the wandering eye that binds my thoughts. The species is quite common within settlements indeed, and the inner cities are a favoured haunt. The sky has been haunting me for days now. They have gone.

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Come@Me: Hummingbirds are Jerks

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It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. For hummingbirds, though, since cooperation leads to quick starvation, they ain’t no such thing as a team!

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The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida

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Getting to know the subtleties in differences between closely related species takes years of dedication and practice. Thirdly, many species of shorebirds display such vast differences in their summer and winter plumages that it is always interesting to note how some birds in the same flock are in contrasting stages of plumage.

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On Going Vegan

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I neglected to take the camera into the courtyard in the beginning, though I did bring the hounds and their beds. It's about not fetishizing one species while making an industry of torturing others. Tags: Activism Current Affairs " Jonathan Safran Foer "Eating Animals animal rights Daiya vegan cheese veganism World Vegan Day.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. Most species go extinct.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Oh, cheeky me left out another alternative for both cases, which brings us right to the origin of these sayings: the devil. “Rabeneltern” – raven parents Raven parents, raven mothers, raven fathers – shame on you all, for you are neglecting your children. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“.

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