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Africa – Birding down Memory Lane

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It resembled a Hooded Crow of east europe, only the grey parts were white – the Pied Crow , as it turned out to be. (Statistics would go in favour of the Cape Glossy Starling , as I later learned.). The next bird was some crow-like UFO observed from the shuttle bus. Crow-like has to be a crow, doesn’t it? Umm, yes, the bird?” “The

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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A kestrel in the rain

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In the Spring, the reserve is alive with nesting Redshanks , Skylarks , and displaying Lapwings , while Marsh Harriers cruise the reed beds looking for food for their young, and Brown Hares raise their young safe from men with dogs.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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Mating pairs are faithful for life and share the tasks of raising the young. In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees.

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The Lion Forest of India

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A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater (above) and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ). Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Maybe his reputation is not without a foundation? There is barely enough light for a photo.

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Birding the Little Rann of Kutch

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They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis. Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea.

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Birding Gir National Park, India

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A low branch is decorated by a Green Bee-eater and a tree top above it holds several Cattle Egrets. It belongs to the same species as those in Europe, but a smaller subspecies ( Sus scrofa davidi ). After a positive ID, it flies to the protruded roots of a large tree, showing itself well in the soft sunlight.

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