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Some therapeutic post-lockdown birding

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Still, the ease of restrictions allowed me to escape some of the elections campaign torture through the media and exchange it for the soothing sensation of being in a deep and damp conifer forests in the rain. Grey-headed Woodpecker by Krishna Prajapati / Wikimedia Commons. Forest bathing?

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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Cut down the virgin forest and lose the Orangutans or Spotted Owls or Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. Help us get an important part of the funding required by visiting our Indiegogo Campaign. After the film is finished and ready for distribution to 120 million PBS viewers, we will begin our public campaign for prairies and their chickens.

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5 In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the proposed reserve was announced.

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Cats Indoors Compromise!

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She’s not really a birder, but having been friends with me she knows that they are there, watches some ( Red-bellied Woodpeckers are her favorite) and will even drink shade-grown coffee because she knows it’s good for migratory birds. My friend Lorraine is awesome. Her nickname is Fabulous Lorraine.

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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

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Gila Woodpecker. Official Sierra Club Grassroots Network Campaign – social media actions. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue. Nor will any other environmental component if the border wall gets built. 50-mile Border Impact Zone. Image by USFWS. Cactus Wren. Photo by © KS Nature Photography.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides. And remembered.

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Come@Me: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos

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In 2011 I tried to reach the marketing department of Zeiss to sell them the centenary campaign idea, but found deaf ears and no answer.). We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. Back to gulls. Well, except maybe you. We’ll see you in the comments.

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