Purple Herons Ardea purpurea are an old world element of the Ardeidae and range widely throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and parts...
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Boy, do I have news for you. It has come to my attention recently, through the analysis of a chain of peculiar events, that...
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The Fieldfare Turdus pilaris has a wide Eurasian breeding range that reaches from its western limit in central Europe north to the Arctic coast...
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The story of me and the wallcreeper is a very long one, indeed. And the eventual lifting of the nemesis curse didn’t mean I...
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Andy Avram is a lifelong resident of northeastern Ohio, just east of Cleveland. From the time he can remember, every camping, hiking, or simple...
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Slaughter Lake does not sound like it would be a nice place to visit but we three Americans, my small family, were blissfully unaware...
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I was stalking a small flock of White Wagtails at Tempelhof, a virtually impossible task when you are in a flat, grassy lawn area....
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No, they are not. Get over it, Corey. Pictures taken near Heidelberg in July 2012.
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