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Where to Watch Birds in the Iron Gates

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Keep in mind that the special nature reserves (dark green on the park map) enjoy the highest level of protection and are off limits to visitors (possible only with research permits issued by the park authorities).

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. They wrote books and published research. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews

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A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.

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The Little Big Year – Week 43: Last minute trip to Texas

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We made several stops along the way, hoping our eBird research would give us local hotspots that might turn up a few gems. Another local bird, the Golden-fronted Woodpecker was on my target list. It is the location that I found it in that make this photo so special, well, maybe not for the turtle. Golden-fronted Woodpecker.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. ” I wonder if the rules of the European Song Contest could also be adapted, with the worst performers being turned into birds or maybe turtles.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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European Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia turtur. Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. ???–??????? Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia. forests above socorro.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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European Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia turtur. Oriental Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia orientalis. ???–?????? Madagascar Turtle-Dove – Streptopelia picturata. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Gray-and-buff Woodpecker – Hemicircus concretus. La Paz Waterfall Gardens.

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