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Birding Kabul, Afghanistan

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I am only including them in this post to give you my real-life Kabul experience … Four species are the most easily seen in the few urban parks (into which women are not actually allowed to enter – I am not sure about female birds). We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.

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Birding Acapulco

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The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. The 29 species I added to my January list say so as well.) And, just between you and me, I will confess: I am not immune to the desire to minister in very birdy places! I would definitely say that it is.

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Know Your Audience: A Ring-necked Duck in Germany

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I recently participated in an “English Report Writing” training, sponsored of course by my employer, and this post will function as a test to see how well I was focussed on the lecture (instead of the sky outside the seminar room which may hold a black stork any day during spring migration). Like … the Tufted Duck !

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Extreme Raptors

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Besides the presence of several noted birding personalities, interesting seminars and phenomenal prize give-aways, the real stars of the show were undoubtably the birds. We have just returned from hosting this past weekend’s inaugural Extreme Raptor Weekend and Hawk Mountain was one of our chosen partner venues.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

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The days for me to add to my Little Big Years species count are getting fewer and fewer, and with it, my budget. In addition to all the community events, garage sales, and pancake breakfasts, was a notice of a seminar on the “Sea Birds of the San Juan Islands” at 6:00 Pm that night. Little Big Year species count: 834.

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White wading bird study

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Along the way to work I get to see a pretty decent number of species. I am scheduled to do a waterfront bird seminar here in town in a couple of weeks, and so I wondered, how would I present a series of photos that would help my guests and attendees not miss this uniquely colored bird?

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

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Back in the 1980s, it became popular for biologists to consider plant secondary compounds in understanding inter-species relationships and other ecological matters. I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions.

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