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Common Mergansers or Goosanders Frolicking on Clear Creek

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After doing all this pretty much by themselves, the females abandon the young before they can fly, usually 30 to 50 days after they hatch. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a. They are able to fly at 60 to 75 days old and do just fine without mom.

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Rehabber Slang Part 2, etc.

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So here’s the rest of it, complete with veering, zigzagging, and the eventual abandonment of the original topic altogether, which is what happens when you put rehabbers together in August. The most printable slang is the logical TTs, which Maureen Eiger wrote means “Tyrant Titmouse,” a reference to their over-the-top personalities.

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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.

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There goes the neighborhood

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I am on a chat for Mexican birders, and one of their latest running jokes has to do with a Clay-colored Thrush (all too common on Mexico’s eastern coast) which, during our quarantine, has been dubbed “Wilson” by one of our Veracruz birders, in a reference to Tom Hanks’ volleyball “friend” in Castaway.

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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

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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. As his boss, the leader of the station, Colleen Shepherd, says, “He does so like his obtuse angles.”.

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Baihualing – The Sequel

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Apparently, one of the threats to this species comes from the bioaccumulation of mercury in its feathers – though I balked at paying USD 40 for the scientific paper providing the details, from the abstract and the location of the authors, it seems they examined feathers of this bird living in an abandoned mining region in Guiyang, China.

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The Lady with 700 Cats

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says Lynea Lattanzio, referring to her mother’s forbiddance of felines in the house. Boxes of abandoned kittens, emergency CPR, meds for sick strays — each day brings a new set of challenges to her refuge on 12 acres in central California. .&# Now she has more than 700. “I bet she’s sorry now!&#

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