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Navtej Kohli is an avid birder. Below are some useful birding slang complied by Navtej Kohli for those who have just started to gain their birding wings.

Bird watching as a hobby is taking a flight amid nature lovers. Avid birders are acquainted with the intricate terminology of bird watching, better known as birding slang, but beginners usually get confused on hearing these unfamiliar words. So, if you are about to take bird watching as a hobby, you must at least know some basic terms and their meanings:
1. Tick: any species that you spot should wind up on your birding list, and those species that you have never seen before will wind up on your “tick list.” There are various types of tick lists ranging from “garden ticks” to “trip ticks,” but the idea here is to note anything new.

2. Lifer: if you spot a lifer, you are truly blessed. A “lifer” is a bird that you have never laid eyes on before. Lifers cannot include birds that you have seen while traveling, and they must be birds that you never thought you would lay eyes upon.

3. Sibe: a “sibe” is a bird that usually resides in Siberia, but during a flight this type of bird became lost and wound up near your home. The interesting thing is that sibes usually go unnoticed, since these birds are usually rather plain to look at.

4. BOP: a BOP is easily identifiable as a “bird of prey,” but many people hardly notice them at all when they are soaring hundreds of feet in the air. Birds of prey are truly magnificent animals, so keep your eyes towards the sky for your next BOP sighting.

5. Seawatching: this type of birding really takes a lot of patience. Seawatching is, exactly, as it sounds - watching for birds while sitting near the sea. Seawatchers spend hours perched upon a rocky cliff in order to spot rare birds, and most of the time seawatchers usually wind up spend the day alongside a seagull or two.

However, you don’t need to learn these terms by heart, but it’s just that you should know some most common words. Though the words mentioned above are some of the more common terms, there are literally hundreds of other bird watching terms out there, so don’t worry about memorizing all of them. As with any other sport, birders are rather proud of their exclusive world, so it only makes sense that there are numerous words to go along with the many magnificent birds that exist on the planet.

If you are a Movie buff and horror movies amuse you, then this post on  Dr. Navtej Kohli blog might interest you. Navtej Kohli is a discerning horror freak, below are enlisted some of his favorite horror movies. Watch it and let the chill run through your spine.

•  Psycho (1960)
• Alien (1979)
• Shining, The (1980)
• Aliens (1986)
• Diaboliques, (1955)
• Jaws (1975)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Thing, The (1982)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Jungfrukällan (1960)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Exorcist, The (1973)
• Innocents, The (1961)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Grindhouse (2007)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
• Zodiac (2007/I)
• Halloween (1978)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Holy Mountain, The (1973)
• Haunting, The (1963/I)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Abre los ojos (1997)
• Survive Style 5+ (2004)
• Misery (1990)

Dr. Navtej Kohli blog is back with another sarcastic bit of medical humor.

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Once gain on Navtej Kohli Personal Blog, I bring a very interesting piece of humor.  

While browsing the Internet I came across a very Interesting joke. While reading it you might think that what’s in this joke. The fact is that in 2002 this joke was awarded as world’s funniest joke.

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator says: “Calm down, I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.” There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: “OK, now what?”

It was later on researched that this joke while looks good to read but is not that effective when told. Let me know how you feel about this!

On this sunday I decided to again try something new and post the experience on my Navtej Kohli blog. I joined a flying class for a decent amount. The feeling of flying in the air, feels amazing. You can just forget all your wordly worries and fly away…. 

To start with there are several different flying experiences you can undertake. First is formal flight training for becoming an Airline Carrier Pilot, Second is casual training for learning to fly smaller and more agile planes, Third is a guided combat adventure in which you are able to take the flight stick without any previous training.

All three are great experiences and depend on your level of interest, from a career to a weekend experience. There are different experiences for every budget starting from $49 introductory flying courses to $1000 fighter jet training lessons. I recommend flight highly as it is very exciting and miles apart from commercial airplane flight. Have Fun!

On this Navtej Kohli  blog I bring for you the humorous disadvantage of using fertility drugs……Hope you have a lol.

“The good news, folks, is that you are pregnant with twin daughters. The bad news is that your twins are pregnant too.”

Problems with Fertility Drugs.

Enjoy!!!!

Navtej Kohli personal blog writes on the passion of Navtej Kohli for Ornithology. The search for the Woodpecker continues in America….. Away down in the swampy bottomlands of Dixie in Arkansas, the most intensive search ever for a bird is gearing up for a make-or-break season. Big reputations are riding on the controversial quest for the ivory-billed woodpecker, the most magnificent and most elusive of America’s tree-knockers.

Here in the vast White River National Wildlife Refuge, naturalists across the globe are trying to confirm the most prolonged debate over the sightings of a bird written off as extinct until four years ago.

The camouflage-clad scientists, venturing into what one described as the “most woodpeckeriest” woods to be found from South Carolina to East Texas, have an array of high-tech tools, from GPS coordinate monitors to satellite imagery. Automatic cameras catch digital images, their infrared flash strobes blinking near rotted trees and other likely roosting sites. Sensitive audio recorders strain “ivory-billed-like” sound from the constant clamor of other birds.

This month, for the first time, US Fish and Wildlife Service helicopters were enlisted in the chase, flying low-level “flush” missions meant to spook birds into breaking from the treetops. The idea is that airborne scientists might catch a glimpse of an ivory-billed and supply coordinates to help ground teams hone searches ongoing across hundreds of thousands of wilderness acres.

The last ivory-billed sighting claimed by a bird scientist occurred on Valentine’s Day 2005, in Arkansas, when a researcher from Cornell’s famed Laboratory of Ornithology, Casey Taylor, spied what she is convinced was one of the huge woodpeckers being harried by a mob of crows.

But skeptics scoff at that sighting almost as loudly as they jeer at a fuzzy 2004 videotape purporting to show an ivory-billed. Such critics say the woodpecker has almost certainly been extinct since the 1940s and that the search is a colossal waste of money and scientific energy. They maintain ivory-billed scientists, however expert, are simply fooled by glimpses of similar-looking - but commonplace - pileated woodpeckers.

The rancorous dispute has shaken the usually-collegial bird community, with mud-slinging between prominent biologists. Doubters last year used a professional journal to accuse the ivory-billed scientists of practicing “faith-based ornithology.”

Meanwhile, in the real muck of the bottomlands, the search continues.