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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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A Greek Wild Cat , photographed near Lake Kerkini I’ve had a few encounters with wild cats, too, in both France and Greece. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. Why the weasel should be the head of the family doesn’t really make sense.

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White Storks Everywhere

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They’re the classic charismatic megafauna, and it’s not at all hard to see why they’ve worked their way into so much folklore and why the people of Europe have made so many efforts to conserve them in the face of industrialization, pesticide overuse, hunting, and other threats. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.

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Birds that Costa Rican Birders Want to See the Most

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I love the challenge of “the hunt” and the satisfaction of the find but I also have the ones I want to see the most, my biggest targets if you will. Yellow-breasted Crake – Along with most other members of their reclusive family. This bird does indeed glow.

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

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.

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“The Wise Hours” — a review

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An Englishwoman, she thought, originally, that she would stay within the British Isles, to see the five or six native species.

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