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Eagle in Norway grabs fox!

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Gazumped to Norway

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Along with partner Elin Taranger they run Biotope in Varanger, Arctic Norway and have been a key influence in the creation of Gullfest , an exciting trip combining Taiga Birding, dog -sledding (and I’m guessing lots of drinking).

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Norway Knights Penguin, Ostrich Denied Again

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OK, I don't think Norway even has troops in Iraq. Nils Olav, a king penguin on the Norwegian King's Guard , was bestowed a knighthood for simultaneously defusing an IED while taking out a machine gun in Iraq. The IED was already defused.

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Eagle in Norway grabs fox;

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Eagle in Norway grabs fox

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Seal Products Banned in Europe

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EU nations agree to ban on seal products * Ban would lead to trade clash with Norway and Canada * Final approvals seen as a formality. Tags: canada norway europe trade seals. Thanks to Animal Rights Person for the heads up on this. As of last Friday. *

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Birds Taking Over TV Screens

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News BBC Norway Snowy Owl television' And last but not least, a Norwegian TV channel has created what just might be the first bird reality show , complete with a squirrel as the annoying neighbor. It’s apparently airing online all day, every day, so you can get your Scandinavian bird fix anytime.

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Battle for Control of the Arctic Looms

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Canada, Russia, the US, Denmark [via Greenland] and Norway want a piece of it. Tags: canada norway national security us russia arctic. Will control of the Arctic become another national security issue? And how will this new "cold war" affect the wildlife there? Will they become just another resource to exploit (even more so than now?)

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Whales Losing the Will to Live?

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Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species.

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Polar Bear Hunters Face Battle Over Extinction Worries

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A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as vital to the survival of the predator. In Norway, stalking is banned.

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Europe Votes to Ban Seal Products

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A resolution at the end of a three-year campaign, triggered by a public outcry at the annual seal culls in Canada and Norway, condemned the slaughter of seals as "inherently inhumane". From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe.

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Whales in danger.

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The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. Whales are facing more threats today than ever before, largely from commercial whaling.

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Does anyone here know what kind of squid this is? It was caught a few years ago on the south west coast of Norway, we set it free don’t worry

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How I dipped the Horned Grebe

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In the Old World, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe breeds in a wide belt stretching from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and it spends winters along sea coasts, from Japan to China and from Norway to France, plus the Adriatic and the Black Sea (west and east of the Balkans, respectively).

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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

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80% of the national park is covered by forest, 85% of it consisting of Norway Spruce , Silver Fir and the European Beech. There are more than 1100 plant species, the most valuable being the 76 endemics.

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Birding Sweden on the Fly

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How could Norway top this? Still, I was glad to be able to snap some shots of these very special (at least to me) geese. Sweden was one of the most memorable places on this trip, and ending our stay here with these geese sent us off on a high note. Spoiler Alert: It did! ). Mute Swan and cygnets. Birding Trips Europe Sweden'

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

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Perhaps the most telling thing in Bloxam’s notes is the following: We saw quantities of rats with long tails, different in appearance from the common South Sea rat and resembling in color and almost in size the Norway rat. We saw them running about the wood in great quantities.

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Birding’s Biggest Dips

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Cuban Pewee 2; Paul and Anita Guris 0 A Cuban Pewee by Mike Bergin Jochen Roder spent a long time walking to dip on a Snowy Owl in Norway. In 1992, a fellow birder he met in Norway mentioned that Snowy Owl was possible north of the village of Vadso. Anita still makes impolite noises when the name of this species comes up.

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Time and the Tilting Earth*

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That’s about 400 hundred people in Canada, 2600 in Greenland, 2500 in Svalbrad (Norway), and 700 or so in Russia. As best as I can calculate only about 6200 people live further north than me (and you would not believe how much time I spent today trying to figure out that little number). The last couple of days here have been glorious.

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Disneynature Earth Q&A

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Fothergill: For me, it has to be Svalbard, which is an archipelago of islands between Greenland and northern Norway. That made the wildlife viewing all the more special really, so that’s probably my favorite place. It’s where we filmed all the polar bear material.

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We are Just Money Grubbers

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Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway. “Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. from increasing tourism and angling) causes much disruption to nesting birds. Adapted from the IUCN/BirdLife International Red List).

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From Today's New York Times

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The United States is losing its historic leadership position in international nature conservation, as countries like Germany, Norway, Britain and others have made financial pledges that begin to dwarf United States yearly financing rates to address deforestation and species conservation.

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Killingholme Haven Pits revisited

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Unfortunately the Bar-tailed Godwit was too distant on an outgoing tide to be able to read any writing on the yellow flag, so although we know it was marked in Norway since 2016 we are not able to find out the individual birds history. The Bar-tailed Godwit had a red ring around its left tibia and a yellow flag on its right tibia.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid. By mid–16th century turkeys were no longer a curiosity and they were seldom mentioned.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

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I was quite shocked to learn that my last Northern Gannets were seen in Norway waaaaay back in 1992, some 15 years ago! However, after returning from the States to Germany in 2007 and with the birth of my son, I took stock of my European bird species – those I had on my life list – reflecting on when I had last seen them.

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