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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. And, expectedly, the advice was: you should significantly lower your prices and move production to Asia. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys.

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Azure-winged Magpies

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The Azure-winged Magpie is a pretty member of the crow family found in Eastern Asia, from Siberia and Japan down to Hong Kong. Unlike other magpies I’ve seen, this one lives in family groups, and like other corvids, are conversational and fun to watch. Azure-winged Magpie. As you can’t see from the wings.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. Dragan]: The best birding in Asia is not even on the Asian mainland! Yes, this is a shameless plug, but it’s also true.].

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Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

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I bought a new rucksack yesterday and the first thing I checked when I brought it home was, how easily my spotting scope with a mounted window clamp fits in – test passed with flying colours. In this first part, I’ll focus on continental Asia, its south and south-east (Oriental region). What purpose rucksack did I choose?

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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Old World Vultures are nestled within the family Acciptridae along with the hawks and eagles. It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. millions years ago.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Only a small one, my Rockjumper guide reassured me, an initiation to real Southeast Asia birding. (6) It was a good birding year.

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!)