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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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Somehow, a spoon as a bill may not be the ideal tool for this task. In these rural areas, public transportation is still mostly based on rather old-fashioned modes. This species seems to enjoy being in mixed flocks with the White-shouldered Starling. Once the bird takes up a different position, it gets more interesting.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. Sophie Osborn’s stories are personal and inspiring, but this is more than a personal memoir.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. ©2023, Donna L. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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And you’ve posted a link to a petition to an airline to ask them to stop transporting trophies. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. That conservation uses the death of the species it is trying to save is both paradoxical and not. And that lions are really cute.

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The Ole’ Bucket List

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Well, this time next week I’ll be winging my way to Cape Town via Auckland and Singapore (air transport is weird sometimes), so this is my last beat post of the year. It’s a species that has bedeviled and bewitched me over the years. I find them a moderately useful tool for sorting out my priorities.

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