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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of January 2020)

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A busy, snowy, chilly weekend kept me and birds equally unable or unwilling to meet, so instead I’ll take this opportunity to show respect to American Crows ; these birds gather in massive winter flocks around here, which makes them the true spirit animal of this frigid season.

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Former AVMA President Kratt returning to Board

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Douglas Kratt, a small animal practitioner from Wisconsin who was the 2020-21 AVMA president, won a special election to serve out the remainder of Dr. Jim Weismans unexpired term on the AVMA Board of Directors.

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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The others follow, some dozen animals in all. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals. They are crossing one or two at a time.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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But one in particular did not even involve contact with an animal. I walked into an enormous dining area filled with rehabbers, and they were all eating lasagna and talking about the kind of animal medical issues that would send most people running from the room. Perch Press (March 24, 2020). There are so many! ISBN: 0578612003.

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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Ideally, we would have data to look at all of these kinds of animals. We decided to go with birds mainly because we could find data from three different websites (eBird, iNaturalist, and Flickr, which also has more bird pictures than most other groups of animals). ” Landscape and Urban Planning 196 (2020): 10374.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior, by John Kricher — a review

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For example, ritualistic displays of aggression and appeasement, of coming to the brink and then backing off, are common in humans and, probably, all animals. September 1, 2020. Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior. By John Kricher. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York. ISBN 978-1-328-78736-1. __.

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Emerging birding destinations: Serbia

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Among travel guides, due to its coverage of nature and birding, recommendation goes to Serbia: The Bradt Travel Guide (6th edition, 2020). These are overgrown in steppe grasses and local sheep herders are subsidised by the authorities to bring their animals here to keep the grass short, prevent succession by bushes and manage the habitat.

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