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Snapper by Brian Kimberling

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Our guide through the woods and towns of Indiana is one Nathan Lochmueller, who looks back to tell the tale of a coming of age that involves a lot of crawling through the woods on breeding-bird surveys, a lot of beer, and a few scrapes with implacable forces like the law, armed KKK members, and snapping turtles.

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The Top-5 Birding Hotspots of Serbia

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My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month. The reservoir is surrounded by traditional farming landscape, adding the European Turtle Dove and the Ortolan Bunting to the scene. Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. eBird bar chart. #4

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Shearwater Chase in Costa Rica

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a couple sea turtles, and a jumping sailfish but no birds. Including this one perched on a sea turtle. Also known as the Fairy Tern, this species breeds on Cocos Island and is very rarely seen from pelagic trips in Costa Rica. Most photos in this post were taken by Diego Quesada of Birding Experiences.

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Preparation of a Pied Oystercatcher nest site

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This is the time of year when the Pied Oystercatchers breed and already three of the sixteen pairs along this stretch of beach have successfully laid eggs. I normally park my bicycle up and walk this section as there are either three or four pairs of Pied Oystercatchers breeding in this territory.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Most likely, the researchers have indicated, the hatched birds would be viable and not too different from regular chickens, possibly less different than some of the odd breeds generated by more traditional methods. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing. The palatal region was also altered to a more ancestral phenotype.

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The Danube Backwaters

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What I have always missed there and what I still miss is to experience presence of the European Beaver. Yet another abundant species in his days was the European Turtle Dove , of which we lost about a quarter of population to hunting in this century alone – nowadays officially a threatened species in the IUCN Red List.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

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This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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