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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

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The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. For more information visit this page [link].

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What is the National Bird of Italy?

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Here, for example, is the emblem of Italy, adopted by the Italian Republic in 1948. (Europe, let alone Italy, doesn’t have bluebirds.). The lack of a national bird is not because Italy has a paucity of birds or a lack of interest in symbols.

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4 Things to Consider Before Adopting a Dog

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Choosing to adopt a dog rather than get one at the pet store (or what some like to refer to as “puppy mill”) is a beautiful thing—essentially you are saving a poor pup from euthanasia and you’re providing a an animal with a good home. But adopting a pet is a huge responsibility and is very similar to adopting a child.

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Do nine-primaried oscines represent 16 different families?

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For example, see Birdforum discussions here and here.). John Boyd adopts what he calls a “compromise phylogeny” of 10 families , noting that uncertainty remains. For example, rather than putting Yellow-breasted Chat in its own family, Boyd puts it within the blackbird family.

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Birds aren’t real – The Black-tailed Trogon

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Among the myriad of birds was a single Black-tailed Trogon, not ten meters away from me adopting the typical very upright stance. Please don’t hesitate to give examples in the comments of other interesting birds that come to your mind whose behaviour fits the picture of a government surveillance drone. At times it just looked so fake.

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Birders are Freeloaders

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And it is interesting to note that government does very little to subsidize the bird watching experience; state Departments of Natural Resources, for example, maintain plenty of trout fisheries to improve the angling experience, but not a single warbler aviary to add more diversity to spring migration! billion to almost $4.1

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Birding Heligoland in Late September

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An example of the changes over this time were the initially large numbers of Whinchats. Virtually overnight, the Whinchats had disappeared and were replaced by European Stonechats adopting the same positions on vantage points across the island.

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