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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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When I saw the NL Pure in a webinar for the first time, immediately – before the webinar ended, I asked my Swarovski sales rep for a pair to test. I kept them in my backpack until yesterday, didn’t want to hold them, to get any impressions… I wanted to test them as a tabula rasa (a clean slate). And today I did.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Giant tyrannosaur like dinosaurs had systems for efficient breathing that modern birds use to facilitate the aerobically demanding task of flight, but those dinosaurs did not fly (see: Aerosteon riocoloradensis : A Very Cool Dinosaur from Argentina. This permitted the identification of an autapomorphic median gene expression region in Aves.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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“I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to try 12s,” Dragan’s friend said when he was told that Dragan was about to test the Swarovski NL Pure 12×42 binoculars. Donna). ==. But craziness is not a requisite. Just like the ELs in 1999, the NL Pure series represents another significant milestone in birding optics.

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