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Penguins, Parrots and Wine on Matiu / Somes Island

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The highlight of the weekend was seeing a pair foraging on a beach, searching the sand and tide strands for various morsels like a turnstone, and approaching the dozing New Zealand Fur Seal without the slightest sign of fear. Red-crowned Parakeet foraging near a New Zealand Fur Seal. I’ll work on that.

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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

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Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. If you would kindly ignore the fact that it eats putrid, bloating seals, it’s adorable. For that matter, what about the Ross’s Gull ?

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A couple of facts :D

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Seals can mimic humans, you've heard of Crows and Parrots mimicing human speech but Seals can to, one Harbor seal named Hoover was able to mimic his owners voice and could say stuff like "Get over here!"

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The Top 5 Avian Ambassadors of Costa Rica

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Would those polar counterparts laugh over similar life situations (“You also like 3 day old seal blubber?”), As loud as it is eye-catching, this big beautiful parrot has become pretty common in Costa Rica. There would also be drama! We could see what happens when an Ivory Gull meets a Snow Petrel ! Tubenoses suck!”).

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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This article is about the parrots we have, not the ones we wish we had. Yes, Germany has parrots, or parakeets to be more precise. Heidelberg Zoo to the south-west of Neuenheimer Feld, all over the place but most often at the seals enclosure and the adjacent kiosk. A Birdy New Year! Here in Germany, we don’t wish we had.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

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Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. It’s also an exciting and incredibly beautiful place to bird, period. .”

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City Hornbills

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Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick. Oriental Pied Hornbill.

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