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      <title>Re: Kuwait Shikras</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:11:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>vasil_ananian</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4670</link>
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      <description>Dear Alexander, Thank you for the reports. Regards, Vasil</description>
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      <title>Video of birding trip to Israel</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:30:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>keith_betton</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4669</link>
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      <description>A friend put me onto this short video on Youtube about a birding trip to Israel. Worth watching (and good music too!) </description>
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      <title>Information on North India and Nepal National Parks</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:16:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Ahmad Barati</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4668</link>
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      <description>Dear All We are planning a 20-day visit to North India and Nepal during March 2010 and looking for some information about the best wildlife areas. Could anyone</description>
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      <title>Upper Nile IBA</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mindy Rosenzweig</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4667</link>
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      <description>I just remembered the Upper Nile where Crocodile Island is located is situated in an IBA.   Mindy ... From: Mindy Rosenzweig &lt;egyptcalling@...&gt; </description>
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      <title>Crocodile Island Campaign</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:20:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Mindy Rosenzweig</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4666</link>
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      <description>Dear Friends of Nature in Egypt ,   The Jolie Ville Hotel on Crocodile Island is one of Egypt ’s most famous sites for birdwatching tourism.  Visitors from</description>
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      <title>Re: Kuwait Shikras</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:36:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alexander Abuladze</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4665</link>
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      <description>Dear Vasil, During my field works in South Caucasus in 1972-2009, these birds were recorded in the following sites: Shikra (Accipiter badius) is vagrant to</description>
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      <title>Re: Kuwait Shikras</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:51:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>vasil_ananian</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4664</link>
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      <description>Hello George and Lee, Thanks for the replies. Perhaps there would be a number of sightings in and around Kuwait.. I am more interested in the species&#39;</description>
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      <title>SV: [MEBirdNet] Asian House Martin</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:14:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Stefan Cherrug</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4662</link>
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      <description>The Swedish record is rejected. Stefan Cherrug Från: MEBirdNet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MEBirdNet@yahoogroups.com] För MARTIN SCOTT Skickat: den 5 februari</description>
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      <title>Kuwait Shikras</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>LGREUK400@...</dc:creator>
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      <description>Not sure what information is required but Shikra has proven to be a regular winter visitor to Kuwait (with up to 5 birds some winters) and I have also seen</description>
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      <title>Kuwait Shikras</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:18:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ggregory71</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4660</link>
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      <description>Dear I recommend that you contact the Editor of Birdingworld, Steve Gantlett, by email: Steve@... However, since the article was published there</description>
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      <title>Re: Shikra in Armenia</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:14:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>ggregory71</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4659</link>
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      <description>Dear Vasil, I recommend that you contact the Editor of Birdingworld, Steve Gantlett, by email: Steve@... However, since the article was</description>
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      <title>Re: Greater Scaup sighting</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>vasil_ananian</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4658</link>
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      <description>Dear Mamikon, That sounds interesting. The species is misclassified though. If proven, your obs would be the third or fourth for Armenia - notable,</description>
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      <title>Re: Shikra in Armenia</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>vasil_ananian</dc:creator>
      <link>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEBirdNet/message/4657</link>
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      <description>Dear birders, Would it be possible to get any electronic copy (pdf, jpgs of pages&amp;#8230;) of this article? Gregory, G. 2007. Shikra in the Western Palearctic.</description>
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      <title>Re: Asian House Martin</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:51:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MARTIN SCOTT</dc:creator>
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      <description>Thanks Lee Certianly no SBC found in Egypt where habitat is clearly being squeezed by developemnt Martin To: MEBirdNet@yahoogroups.com;</description>
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      <title>Re: Asian House Martin</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>LGREUK400@...</dc:creator>
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      <description>Martin Birding World&#39;s statement is correct. If you browse the Surfbirds identification query panel in reference to the most recent Israel report of this </description>
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