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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. But what do I know about the taste preferences of Cattle Egrets. However, in 2017, the journal published a paper with the (spoiler alert!) What’s next?

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Pat’s 2017 Year List for Costa Rica and Wherever Else

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Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis; Santa Barbara de Heredia, 4-Jan. Great Egret – Ardea alba; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan. Little Blue Heron – Egretta caerulea; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan. Tricolored Heron – Egretta tricolor; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan. Osprey – Pandion haliaetus; San Miguel reservoir, 8-Jan.

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Serbia – birding overview of a year in the Central Balkans

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Among travel guides, due to its extensive coverage of natural history and birding sites, recommendation goes to Laurence Mitchell’s Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (5th edition, 2017). In the last ten years, Cattle Egrets have bred again, on and off, but for the first time since 1870s. Common Quail , Grey Partridge , Turtle Dove , too.

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

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Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century. An out-of-range Kölsch from the Pacific Northwest.

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Collaborative List – March 2017

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79 checklists were contributed for 624 birds during March and bring the running total for 2017 to 1162. 13 Jan 2017. 20 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 08 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 15 Jan 2017. 22 Jan 2017. 07 Jan 2017. 28 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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13 Jan 2017. 20 Jan 2017. 30 Apr 2017. 11 Apr 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 01 Jun 2017. 08 Jan 2017. 28 Mar 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 07 Jan 2017. 28 Jan 2017. 22 Jan 2017. 15 Jan 2017. 05 Jan 2017. 01 Jan 2017. 07 Jan 2017. Monkey Mia.

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Birding across the north of Australia in July

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On other occasions we would encounter numerous caravans being towed or large trucks up to 54 metres long transporting fuel or cattle and we would wisely leave the bitumen if it was not a full width road and let the larger vehicles pass. Cattle can be anywhere! Of course another danger is the presence of snakes and crocodiles!

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