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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent. But, the number of abandonments is greater than zero for the case of the Unknown Causal Agent.

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Owling in Trinidad & Tobago

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Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Years later, a small group of us ventured into some forest adjoining abandoned cocoa estates in central Trinidad searching for a view of this bird. Striped Owl.

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Many of us have neglected or outright abandoned our feed readers. All you need to do is enter your email address right here: Email address: Of course we won’t be selling your email information or anything like that. What has changed, though, is how readers connect with our plethora of posts.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

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Mosco understands that there’s a wall of reasons why people hate Rock Pigeons and proceeds to dismantle them one by one using a powerful tool–information. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p.

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What makes a good bird guide – your saying

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One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: ‘Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.’ This one was so bad, that we abandoned the idea of seriously birding and just enjoyed our vacation.

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Birding Jianfengling, Hainan (A-H)

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Hopefully, this is a sign of purposely abandoned development rather than of business failures. Instead, some random information about the color blue. I do not know what the long-term plans are for this site, but there are actually several ruins of former tourist sites at Jianfengling. The main spa users these days are Grey Wagtails.

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The Juniper Titmouse Nesting Project

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But a Bewick’s Wren did build a nest, which it promptly abandoned before laying any eggs. We at NestWatch are very excited that this group has burst onto the scene and quickly become our primary source of information about this species. So, how many chicks hatched in my two boxes? Others had more luck.