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The World’s Most Beautiful Goose?

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All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. A first-winter Red-breasted Goose at Cley, North Norfolk As a general rule, geese are birds of subtle, even dull, plumage.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” .” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Do you really need to have Kai’s birding experience further detailed not just by month but a level below? In an experiment conducted by renowned ornithologists, they sent out applications for a position as a bird model. Yes, you do, trust me. That makes for an inner core of about 0.2% This is more serious than it sounds.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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” I have a scientific background myself, and I guess some experiments on animals may sometimes be justifiable, but others just leave me disgusted, such as this one. Meanwhile at Nanhui, Pied Kingfishers are discussing the Ukraine war, corruption in politics, and rising fish prices.

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