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Red Grouse Restored: a Full Species Again

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This paragraph is taken from British Birds , a book written by W.H.Hudson, novelist, celebrated nature writer and one of the founders of the Royal Society for the Protection Birds. Hudson’s British Birds was first published in 1895. It was replaced as Britain’s only endemic bird by the Scottish Crossbill, Loxia scotica.

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Birding Jianfengling, Hainan (A-H)

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Still, it has quite a good habitat and birds – so good, in fact, that the frugal blog post writer (me) decided to write two separate posts about this park. This is part one, covering birds named from A to H. Given the exciting and exotic birds Hainan has to offer, starting the post with a Barn Swallow is a bit of a letdown.

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How My 2021 Birding Is Going So Far

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I took a couple of weeks “off” from chronicling my weekly outings, in order to give my thoroughly amateur recommendations on bird photography, for other thoroughly amateur photographers that might be out there. But special post subjects must eventually come to an end, while weekly birding does not.

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Post Apocalyptic Steampunk Birding

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Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. The subtle white edging to the gape of this bird indicates it is near breeding time.

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Kerkini: Europe’s Best Bird Lake?

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Though the birding around Lake Kerkini may be outstanding, it’s inevitably the lake itself that is the centre of interest. The Greylags are interesting, as they are of the eastern race, rubrirostris , with distinctive pink legs and beaks, unlike the orange of our birds at home in Britain.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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But eastern Zimbabwe is an almost mythical place and a highly productive birding destination. I have had the privilege of birding Zimbabwe on a handful of occasions. The country is also famous for its regular sightings of that most wanted of birds, the African Pitta. Just be prepared for well…almost anything.

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Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas

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And with it the existence of the northernmost species of parrot in the world, the only native parrot in the United States whose provenance is not questioned, and a piece of American natural history that is so bizarre that its existence seems impossible to people living today. The birds had a tendency to rally around their fallen flockmates.

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