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Snowy Owls Caught a Ride to the Netherlands

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At least two of the birds ended up in the Netherlands where they have been delighting birders from across Europe. Birds irruption Netherlands Snowy Owl' How about so dramatic that nine birds caught a ride on a freighter and some made it all the way across the Atlantic Ocean ? This irruption is absolutely insane.

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Netherlands to ban unhealthy designer pet breeds

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ALF Spray Paints Bomb Threat in the Netherlands

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ALF activists spray painted a bomb threat at Wageningen University in the Netherlands because they do animal research. Never heard of that approach. From Bite Back: "In the morning of June the 15th the ALF went back to the Wageningen university.

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Two beauties I found. Alkmaar, The Netherland, 3000x4000 [OC]

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Another Bird Surprise for Costa Rica- Buff-collared Nightjar!

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A bit larger than the Netherlands but with less land than Latvia and Ireland, in terms of territory, we rank 126. As far as countries go, Costa Rica is at the smaller end of the spectrum. With good reason, lots of birders visit Costa Rica and we also have a good sized local birding community.

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Increase in Dutch Animal Testing

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Tags: animal research Netherlands.

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Dutch May Ban Kosher Slaughter of Livestock

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This could halt production of kosher and halal meat in the Netherlands – and lead to similar campaigns in other European countries. Excerpted from the Irish Times. THE DUTCH parliament has voted overwhelmingly to ban the ritual slaughter of livestock.

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Investigation Reveals Cruel Treatment of Pigs in Europe

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In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Overall, Spain had the worst conditions, followed by the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Jaime Oliver is doing a show about the issue in Britain.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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Otto Plantema resides in the Netherlands, is a scientist by trade (he has a Ph.D. Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020. The quality of the photographs is supported by the book’s nice, thick paper and a size that’s not enormous, like some photography books are these days, but not too small. by Otto Plantema.

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Meat Grown in a Petri Dish?

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Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. From an opinion piece in the Times of India. They haven't been able to actually taste the pork they've grown because of lab rules. Nevertheless there's potential here for two giant breakthroughs.

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Could Radar Help Make Birdstrikes a Thing of the Past?

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The article cites avian radar proponents in the Netherlands and Israel who suggest that this technology can be quite effective at reducing the risk of birdstrikes. During migration periods, conventional radar systems can give birders a helpful heads’ up as to when and where birds are moving.

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The Charge of the Egyptian Goose

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The situation was still much the same in 1995, when a friend and I went on a short birding trip to the Netherlands in winter, specifically to see geese. The Netherlands were far away. Of course I considered it to have been blown there from the Netherlands. Still, this was not much of an issue, nothing we discussed.

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Sandpiper family reorganization on the way

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Black-tailed Godwit ( Limosa limosa ) in the Netherlands cc-by Frank Vassen Sandpipers The birds known as peeps, stints, knots, turnstones (which were once awarded their own family!),

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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The Rose-ringed Parakeet’s European (=feral) range is surprisingly coherent for an introduced bird that is dependent on large metropolitan areas, and the species occurs in very decent numbers from UK’s London throughout the Netherland’s large cities all the way up along the Rhine to Germany’s Heidelberg.

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Notable Mentions: Digiscoper of the Year 2011

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This wonderful Yellow Wagtail ( Motacilla flava ) was entered by user geerta (Netherlands) early on in the competition and was one of the first photos in this year’s competition that really made me sit up. Well, who could not enjoy that wealth of colour?

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Mid-migration Coffee Break

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This timing suites Britain and Netherlands well, I suppose, but Europe is somewhat larger than that.). The grand idea behind the Eurobirdwatch is to get as many people as possible exposed to birds and birding (or, to the virus of birding) – at the time when smaller birds are already gone, and the bigger ones haven’t arrived yet!

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The European Christmas Bird Count

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Barnacle geese breed mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic, while the nearest wintering areas also lie along the northern coasts of Europe: the Netherlands and the Baltic Sea (Estonia, Finland, Denmark and Sweden). But this wasn’t a Greylag nor a White-fronted, we almost ran over a Barnacle Goose – a rarity I mentioned earlier.

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In which I put a Beach Boys song in your head

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Brown-throated Parakeet is a pretty common species across much of Central American and northern South America, true, but Aruba, just like the other two islands that make up the Netherlands Antilles, has its very own endemic subspecies, arubensis. Is it it’s own species?

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A New Way Global Warming Kills Birds

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The birds used in this study were Zebra Finches reared and housed at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The experimenters changed the difficulty of foraging for different groups of birds, so some birds would have to spend more energy on foraging than others. Bird age and other factors were also considered.

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Review: Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change

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From there, we learn of the effects of season creep on Great Tits and winter moth caterpillars in the Netherlands, the increasing gap between male and female migration dates in Africa-wintering Barn Swallows and the lengthening migration of Barred Warblers as their breeding grounds shift north.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

25 well-known scientists, philosophers and politicians from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United States informed in a comprehensible manner and on a high level about the current status on animal ethics studies, answered open questions and introduced their approaches.

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Chacachacare Island

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In fact, the habitat on Chacachacare recalls that of the desert islands of the Netherlands Antilles. Tobago of course bears a closer geological relation to the aforementioned Netherlands Antilles than it does to Trinidad. Strewn with cacti and dry forest, Chacachacare even has a natural saline pond!

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Dutch Whale Denied Freedom; Must Go to Spanish Amusement Park

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Unfortunate, but the court decided she would not survive being returned to the wild. Here's an excerpt from the online Boston Globe.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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I also got to spend a few hours in the Netherlands. Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands. Towards the end of the winter though a business trip was to take me first to Belgium and then to northern Germany, and going through the Netherlands past that particular village was just a minor detour.

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Killingholme Haven Pits

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Skrins, Friesland, The Netherlands. Skrins, Friesland, The Netherlands. Harlingen, west of Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands. Harlingen, west of Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands. Exminster Marshes, Exe Estuary, Exeter, Devon, SW England. North Killingholme Haven, Immingham, Humber Estuary, North lincs.,

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Buxton Brewery: Ring Your Mother

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This week’s beer is Ring Your Mother, a collaboration between the English Buxton Brewery and Oproer Brouwerij and Oedipus Brewing of the Netherlands, that revives an 1832 recipe for an XXXX mild ale originally brewed by the now-defunct Truman Brewery of East London, one of the largest breweries in the world in the 1800s.

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