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How much time do you devote to birding?

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Lunch Break Birding , up to an hour – This applies to two types of sites, those not really productive but conveniently close, and those very productive but in freezing winter days only (wildfowling, gulling). A bad option if 15 minutes is all you have and you dip it. Usually, you do not have enough time for that coffee.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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European Union Farming Policies Wiping Out Birds

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In order to boost food production across Europe, the wholesale ripping up of hedgerows, draining of wetlands and ploughing over of meadows has robbed farmland birds of their homes and food. Familiar birds across the European countryside are suffering precipitous declines.

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Flights of Passage: a book review

10,000 Birds

It takes a different approach from the Weidensaul and Kaufman books, but it is excellent and impressive in every way, and about as stunning a production as some of the migrations it describes.

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Pets Add Life; Guinea Pig Interview

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“Have you seen what turtles can do?” This post is sponsored by the Pets Add Life campaign and the American Pet Products Association. We were laughing out loud when we watched this interview of Rory the guinea pig! You can see more pet interviews on the PAL YouTube channel. Will you take a pledge to help pets?

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Birding: Time and Effort

10,000 Birds

Lunch Break Birding , up to an hour – This applies to two types of sites, those not really productive but conveniently close, and those very productive but in freezing winter days only (wildfowling, gulling ). While checking floating logs for ducks, I counted European pond turtles (strange things birders do?)

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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But the problem is the high demand for these products. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Sounds just awful. From Vietnam News. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said.

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