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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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Even better, just a few meters away from the food vendors, it is not too crowded, and the palm trees attract a number of birds, including two species of parrots. That is mainly the Philippines, as indicated by the species name lucionensis (Luzon is the Philippines’ biggest island). The first one is the Blue-naped Parrot.

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2017 Bird Images

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Then the culling process begins. The ones that will be in the calendar, the elite 12 are selected by not only the quality of the image, but most colorful, most unique, and in the case of a couple of birds cut out this year, species that appeared in last years Calendar. This process starts out with about 60 photos.

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Seabird City Spectacular

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Bempton’s towering chalk cliffs hold the biggest mainland seabird colony in England The last inhabitants of St Kilda left nearly a century ago, so it seems likely that spared the annual cull, numbers of Gannets grew and were able to spread to new colonies. Such a bountiful source of food was appreciated by the Gannets.

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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They are considered an environmental pest because they are a non-native species that inflict ecological damage.but to deal with them this way is just unacceptable. Better to cull them than subject them to years of pain and loneliness in a lab. Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan.

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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

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Cull (and organize) your photos. An hour or two on a cold day can make a nice dent in the issue, deleting hundreds of out-of-focus or lesser images and sorting the keepers by species or location. Neaten up so you know what is where and to avoid harming visitors with a book-avalanche. I really need an intervention. Plan a future trip.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. The images tie directly to the text.

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

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The idea is that some finches from what is now Ecuador ended up on the Galapagos Islands, and subsequently diversified into a number of different forms … they speciated … filling various niches that on the mainland would have been filled by a number of different species. That is from Darwin’s ornithological notes.

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