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Birding Inner Mongolia

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(Note: this post refers to a trip I took a long time ago, in 2015. Still, after I used modern software to turn the originally black-and-white photos into colored ones, some of them may still be worth looking at). Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there.

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Is my Rhino Still Alive?

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The sky was turning colours and the lower, dark-blue layer was clearly distinct from the higher yellowish one: the blue was the shadow of the Earth (the Sun has just set behind the horizon), while the higher one was still sunny… Data published by South African Department of Environmental Affairs (2015).

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Butcher, A. It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. 1999, Holt et al. of Snowy Owl deaths (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). References.

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