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Being a Tolai Hare’s life Human

10,000 Birds

Such has frequently been the case in my survey area deep within Kazakhstans barren Mangghystau province, and the most memorable reverse-lifer experience has been with a Tolai Hare just recently. Mammals Kazakhstan rabbits' The Tolai Hare to me is not a hare, it is more of a miracle. what is this thing?

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NYT Equine Thought Experiment

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The site was where northern Kazakhstan is now, the culture was called Botai and the date was around 3500 B.C. And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment. Horse-drawn carriages and breeding and racing horses and using them to play polo or to schlep kids around is an insult to horses. Let's leave them alone.

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Siberian Chiffchaff in the Altai Mountains

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And here is the problem: Siberian Chiffchaffs are visually distinct, call very differently from European Chiffchaffs and their song is so different that one form doesn’t react to the other’s song in playback experiments. Maybe the two song-types are connected by a gradual change?

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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

10,000 Birds

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. I wrote about the experience here.

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