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Mike Bergin on Nature’s Archive Podcast

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Some of you know that I’m an active podcaster, churning out two episodes a week on testing, admissions, learning, and education on the Tests and the Rest podcast. ” Of course, that’s only a taste, so dig into the full interview over at Nature’s Archive Podcast.

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Binoculars Review: Swarovski NL Pure 10×32

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After testing both Swarovski NL Pure 10×42 and 12×42, I – a self-confessed lover of smallish full-size binoculars, felt the urge to try the latest 32 mm NLs. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.

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Swarovski BTX – A new era in birdwatching

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Testing the BTX at Vlasina Lake, South-east Serbia (note the forehead rest and finder) As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer I am quite familiar with binoviewers and employ them frequently for visual work with telescopes. Nobody was prepared for what that something was. and Aaaah’s! Boy was I wrong. That just doesn’t work.

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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For Coal T**s , resident birds were found to be slimmer than transients, which makes sense as they have better knowledge of the available resources and thus less volatility in their food supply (and of course slimmer birds are better at not being eaten themselves). In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis.

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Birding: Special Lockdown Edition

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After the first 7 days dominated by daily compound-wide Covid tests and being locked down inside the compound, I went outside on the compound grounds on days 8 and 9. Of course, now that I wanted to get a photo, I only found the female. I had already seen a pair of Oriental Magpie Robins wintering in the compound.

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All Is Not Lost

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A recent local news article says its current maximum depth is 60 cm/2 feet, although I didn’t test this statement.) The area west of Araró does indeed hold a remnant lake, as of February of 2024. (A Best of all, I got to enjoy five fantastic Long-billed Curlews. But it was two more species that made my day complete.

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Into the Clouds

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Due to the infrequency of birders’ observations, birding the cloud forest is rife with legends; stories of fantastical sightings of mystical species such as White Bellbirds and Golden-rumped Euphonias course through the lips of any veteran birder hearing of your intent to ascend further than 800m. Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush.

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