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Grand River Brewery: 313 Polish Lager

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My good college friend Luke was originally from Poland and our friendship was fueled greatly by a shared interest in whatever esoteric music we fancied ourselves connoisseurs of at the time: Krautrock, obscure psychedelia, dub reggae, free jazz, etcetera.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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A rutting Fallow buck, photographed in Norfolk, England Elk (or what the Americans call Moose) I’ve encountered several times in Scandinavia, Estonia and Poland. I’ve only seen European Bison in Poland, in the Bialoweiza Forest. The world’s biggest species of deer, they are curiously ugly but impressive animals.

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Finding Birds in Northern Greece by Dave Gosney

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Dave Gosney’s Finding Birds Series covers mostly the Western Palearctic and describes birding in various regions of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, etc., with some additions, namely South Texas, The Gambia, and Goa (India).

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The Ruddy Shelduck Twitch

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Further north, in Poland, they used to write off all Ruddy Shelducks recorded, assuming they were escapees, until they found one ringed in Kazakhstan! Soon, I found three large ducks on the water, but as soon as I come closer, they took flight, like proper wild ducks. In the end, were they escapees, or the real McCoy?

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Crossbill Guide to Extremadura: A Review

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The Crossbill Guide Foundation is a publishing NGO, founded by Dirk Hilbers, and they currently have 10 Crossbill Guides for great European birding/nature areas, including the Finnish Lapland, Hungary’s Hortobagy, France’s Loire Valley and the Biebrza Marshes in Poland. Wholeness, interconnectedness, wonder, beauty.

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Borderline of Countable

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Valentine’s Day , one of them visiting Poland and Germany in the meantime). It took me less than three minutes to find the otherwise rare Great Black-backed Gull among thousands of Mew and Common Black-headed Gulls (we saw two CBHGs that were ringed at the same landfill on this particular St.

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Mediterranean Gull – Coming to a Coast Near You Soon?

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To date individuals have been recorded from nine different countries in Europe; our Med Gulls are coming from Germany, Holland, Poland and other countries as far east as Serbia. Recently local birder Steve Holliday spent some time collating all the local information on ringing reports for this species with some interesting results.

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