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My Favorite 5 Bird Nests: Redefining Home Construction

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These birds are out here creating architectural masterpieces while we struggle to assemble flat-pack furniture without swearing. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the top five bird nests that will put your DIY skills to shame. These birds construct intricate hanging nests that resemble high-end condominiums.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. Focus on the wider triple border area – the birding top of the world.).

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Birding Hokkaido

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His obsession with all things feathered has led him to visit 20 countries around the world in the pursuit of thousands of different species of birds to watch, photograph, and enjoy. Photography opportunities were great, with birds perched on almost every power pole, the edge of the harbor ice, and frequently flying by at eye level.

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Great Great Grebe.

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Despite having only revealed 6 pictures on my Kylie Minogue calender so far, I may already have a candidate for Best Bird of the Year. The Great Grebe , Podiceps major , is a bird of South America where it frequents large waters and coastline on both sides of the continent. Birds Argentina Great Grebe grebes'

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Lockdown Serendipity

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Turkey Vultures can be surprisingly handsome birds when their silvery primaries catch the light. Its face was, in fact, the face color of the Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture , a bird I had never before identified. Indeed, it is a bird that supposedly should not even have been in the state of Guerrero, much less in the city of Acapulco.

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Red-legged Seriema

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This first encounter was during a bird of prey exhibition at Leeds Castle, so the information was forthcoming from the commentary, but the chances of ever seeing one in the wild seemed remote. We pulled over to see two birds legging it through a roadside pasture chasing down insects that make up much of their diet.

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Is the White-naped Xenopsaris Migratory? or The Limits of Citizen Science

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I hadn’t until a little over a month ago when while flicking through one of my volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) I came across it. Birds like the tityras, the becards and the purpletufts. eBird has a range of data exploration tools that, to my mind, exist help birders bird. Nothing wrong with that.

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