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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

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This event took place in April of 1870, in Lafayette Park in St. And, of course, creeping people out, however inadvertently, doesn’t make one a good ambassador for wildlife. Nevertheless, a life bird is a life bird and it would take a lot more than three confounding factors to make me drive away from St.

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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

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Marty St Louis – Manager at Summer Lake NWR, Summer Lake Oregon. John O’Groats Ferry Boat Wildlife Tours – Scotland. Jonnie at the Spurn National Wildlife Refuge, England – accommodations.spurnbirdsobs@hotmail.com. Phumula Kruger Lodge – info@ phumulakruger.co.za, South Africa. Carol and Livia – Doha, Qatar.

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Half Hardy

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When he’s not looking for birds, which is not often, he enjoy music with banjos in it, disc golf, good beer, progressive politics and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and he’s not particularly shy about sharing his opinion on any of those things. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.