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Open Season on Bald Eagles

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Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And while we’re at it, I think it’s time to open a limited season on Bald Eagles. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. I get it now, I really do.

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The Reva Situation

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Once I observed a man walking his two small dogs here, passing by a perched White-tailed Eagle but looking down at grass and not noticing the largest raptor in Europe at all. The eagle seemed well-used to people and paid no attention either. Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirts of a busy city.

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Fog, drizzle and four road blockades

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At first I thought of a possible road accident, but soon I learned that protesting farmers have blocked the road ahead. Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. Protest indeed! There’s an incoming car in my lane, and I am not in India!

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The Top 5 Avian Ambassadors of Costa Rica

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Some might even protest at being kept separate, raising their voices as they eye the main conference birds with hungry intent. The Accipiters and other bird predators would either have to be prohibited from attending or at least need to be kept separate from the rest of the tasty looking attendees.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

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Second, every raptor we encountered was identified as Tawny Eagle. The first time could be forgiven but he kept doing it despite our protests. His lack of knowledge was just annoying, but the third and worst problem was his failure to grasp the concept of binoculars.

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Why No Fuss About Michael Vick?

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I know plenty of people still detest Vick for what he did, but if there are protesters at his games or outside the Eagles’ training facility, I haven’t heard about them. The Eagles are probably good enough to afford that luxury. I don't understand why there hasn't been more outrage or rowdiness. But where's PETA? I don't get it.

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

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White-tailed Eagles in Beljarica. 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 It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak. As a teenager in Yugoslavia, I used to buy National Geographic in second-hand bookshops.

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