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The Devil Is In The D-Con

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This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. 12 of the most toxic types of D-Con will disappear from the shelves by March 31, 2015. There are no tests to diagnose it, either. Do we all feel better?

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Anything else we could say about this great book would only be more in the way of superlatives. (And the price has not increased since 2015; it’s a bargain.).

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

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The following year, having tested his employer’s indulgence still further, Chapin was back in the Congo, where, from a forest mining camp east of Stanleyville (now Kisangani), he succeeded in obtaining several specimens of what he was to name the ‘Congo Peacock’ (Afropavo congensis, and now also known as the Congo Peafowl).

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I

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Birding Beyond Lake Yojoa and Panacam Lodge

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We spent two blissful days exploring both the waders and wildlife of Lake Yojoa and the tropical splendor of PANACAM Lodge. Alex Martinez Matute, proprietor of El Rancho in El Cajon, Santa Cruz de Yojoa ( eBird hotspot ), might not have taken up birding until 2015 or so, but he’s certainly made up for lost time.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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They were still listed as Endangered, but wildlife management measures taken in this park were clearly working. For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Someone should tell the police who is actually paying them.

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