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The return of the Old Man

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Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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Michael Kessler, born in Peru and currently working in Switzerland, has researched birds, plants, and overall biodiversity in Bolivia and South America, and, his bio says, fulfilled a lifelong dream by contributing his artwork.

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Winging It In Tulsa

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I live in New York; I’ve also lived in Maine and Switzerland. One of them was my longtime-but-never-met rehabber buddy Leslie Jackson, who has accomplished the nearly-impossible task of successfully raising swifts, swallows, and Purple Martins (see one of her eventual graduates). Snowstorm? ” You’re in Oklahoma ,” she replied.

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