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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live. And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the U.S.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. ” ( source ).

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Sardinia!

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But of course, also and above all that, I saw birds. Our base camp in Olbia was a bit far north for the Greater Flamingo (though like many wading birds, they are prone to wander when the breeding season is done.) There, of course, I immediately spotted a flamingo. So last week I was in Sardinia. Not quite as cool to non-birders.

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Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird

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Then of course, we have amazing birds such as Wallcreeper , Hoopoe , and Black Woodpecker. It is not unusual to drive by a farm building and see a bunch of Greater Rheas on the farm’s fenced-in pasture next to sheep or goats. We have, for instance, very beautiful birds, like European Bee-eater , Blue Tit , and Kingfisher.

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The Bee-eaters of Africa

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Northern Carmine Bee-eater riding an Arabian Bustard by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours Northern Carmine Bee-eaters in particular are masters of this trait, and rides range from elephants, donkeys and goats to Kori and Arabian Bustards, Abyssinian Ground Hornbills and a variety of other larger birds and mammals.

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The Wood-Warblers Are Back In New York City!

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This past weekend the listservs, Facebook, text services, Twitter, word-of-mouth, weather radar, the calendar, and the entrails of a sacrificial goat all indicated that migration was happening. And, of course, the wood-warblers. And was it ever! Reports abounded of a huge variety of birds, from thrushes to nightjars, terns to vireos.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses.

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