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10 Fun Facts About the American Crow

10 Fun Facts About the American Crow

September 2, 2021September 7, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

American Crows are a familiar sight across the country, common everywhere except our hottest and driest deserts. While crows in folklore and fiction are often associated with trickery and death (a group of crows is, after all, called a “murder”), recent research has shed new light on just how intelligent and family-oriented these birds can […]

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Wildlife Licences: Can’t Shoot Robins, but Egyptian Geese are Game

Wildlife Licences: Can’t Shoot Robins, but Egyptian Geese are Game

September 29, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 3 Comments

Landowners wanting to be allowed to shoot robins, pied wagtails, starlings and other favourite birds seen eating their crops have been rebuffed by the government. But shooters will be able to legally kill or destroy the nests of Egyptian geese and trap and release protected birds like song thrushes, blue tits and dunnocks found foraging […]

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Birds on the east coast

Birds on the east coast

March 6, 2013December 22, 2019 Robert Tovey 1 Comment

This is the second blog to look at Mansur Al Fahad’s trip two weeks ago to the east coast. He saw a very large number and variety of waders, some of which gave almost as many identification headaches as the gulls. However this blog looks at some of the non-waders he saw. All the pictures […]

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