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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. But Swarovski Optik is a family-owned business, so the then CEO, Mr. Swarovski, categorically rejected the advice and decided: factory stays in Austria, and the prices will only go up!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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Tsunami Pics from Midway Atoll

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10K Birds is Top Ten About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. The Islands hold important populations of Monk Seals as well as all the world’s Laysan Ducks and Laysan Finches. I see Kure was also badly hit. Not good.

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Carnival of the Blue XLV

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These Blasts From The Past 2 Book Giveaway Given Away Least Terns Doing Well in Oklahoma Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip Should Subsistence Bird Hunters in Alaska Buy Duck Stamps? Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Thanks for visiting!

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. 5) White-winged Duck. White-winged Duck is an ugly duck, maybe the ugliest bird I’ve ever encountered. And, scoping.

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Finally Saw-Whet

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• Explore These Related Posts Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration.Or Tags: features , owl woods , owls , saw-whet • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more!

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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These two Hadada Ibis are reenacting the mirror scene from “Duck soup” (sort of). At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. These Hadada Ibis were right in the garden of the place where we stayed. The name is dutch-german for hammerhead.