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The Regal Western Kingbird Can Be Very Aggressive

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The Western Kingbird is one of eight species of tyrant flycatchers that breed in North America. I witnessed this myself as a Western Kingbird ( Tyrannus verticalis ) that was possibly nesting in the bottom of an Osprey nest atop a soccer field light stand, took off after one of the Osprey nestlings on its maiden flight out of the nest.

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The Crocodile Safari (Botswana)

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Parasites penetrate the skin, travel through the blood vessels and finally (if you’re lucky) settle in the urinary tract where they happily breed, doing irreversible damage to it (and if you’re less lucky they might get confused and settle inside your spinal cord or even your brain). Date: January 24th, 2001 (08:30-11:00h).

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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Red-crowned Parrots at Irvine Regional Park, Orange County, California

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Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. Red-crowned Parrots have been present in southern California since at least 1963 but weren’t added to the California checklist until 2001.

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Hamsters Celebrate 70 Years in the US

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Prior to the 1970s, virtually all were descended from one breeding pair. Now, one million hamsters are kept as pets, an increase of 41 percent since 2001. Interesting article. Prior to the 1930s, hamsters were pretty much in the wild. This includes the two sitting on the shelf in our house!)

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Greater Rheas: Germany’s new Big Bird

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On the contrary, the birds were quite satisfied with their new-found freedom and realms, and started breeding immediately after their escape in the spring of 2001, much to everyone’s surprise. simply assumed the birds would soon die off and that this would be the end of it. Turns out, it wasn’t.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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So, curious about which birds nest in two places, I quickly found out that it’s Phainopepla, a western bird, a relief because I was concerned that it might have implications for my data collection for the NYS Breeding Bird Atlas. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. The Portfolio of Birds is comprised of 87 2-page spreads.

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