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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

10,000 Birds

To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. A final thought: whether you think collective nouns are fascinating or idiotic , the more fundamental question is, why do they exist at all or, rather, how did they come to be?

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Smart and Getting Smarter

10,000 Birds

When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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Endangered and Unknown: Black-hooded Antwren

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Regardless, these remaining pockets of Atlantic Rainforest harbor an incredibly diverse and often highly endangered collection of bird species with well over a 100 regional endemics. First collected and described in the 19th century, this little bird escaped detection for over 100 years until its rediscovery in 1987.

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Definitely NOT beep-beep

10,000 Birds

But their broad collection of rather odd sounds (moans, groans, hoots, screeches, and bill rattles) also do not include anything remotely like a “ beep beep “ Popular media getting bird calls wrong. Once, and only once, did I see one way down in the state of Guanajuato of central Mexico.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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Cyprus Delights – Part III

10,000 Birds

Subtly plumaged but handsome: a c**k Cretzchmar’s bunting The best places to find Cretzchmar’s Buntings are the foothills of the Troodos, where they like the vineyards and the old, crumbling hill terraces, for much of the agricultural hill land on the island has been abandoned.

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