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Landfill by Tim Dee: Review

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Publisher Little Toller Books, United Kingdom. …hundreds of working man and boys would take advantage of the free hour at dinner time to visit the bridges and embankments, and give the scraps left from their meal to the birds.” Book details. Hardback | 178mm x 128mm | 240 pages. Jacket and illustration by Greg Poole.

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Where am I Birding the Second Week of May?

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Four teams with renowned birders from United States, South Africa and United Kingdom will travel through the diverse and endemic bird rich region of Northern Peru, from May 12 thought May 20, 2014. Gray-hooded Gull. Photo Credit: Diego Garcia Olaechea.

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Ringing in the new breeding season

10,000 Birds

But another race of Red Knot make the High Arctic their home, the species that winters in the United Kingdom and coast of France, ssp islandica. Conventionally this race is thought to breed in Greenland and the High Arctic Archipelago, which lies still further north of me. Birds Arctic Canada shorebirds'

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The simple answer is monetary gain, there is a global black market for these items, regardless of the species’ vulnerability for extinction. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Lendrum is charismatic and obsessed. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland — A Review of the Book

10,000 Birds

I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. 2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama.

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