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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

4 The Love Of Animals

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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Green Herons and their Groovy Necks

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Watching green herons deploy that impossible neck is always a shock, but never more so than that first time one sees it since this bird usually adopts a hunched, short-necked profile. No matter where you live, you stand a decent chance of spotting one fishing along a fresh- or saltwater bank, particularly in summer.

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Birders are Freeloaders

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If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. When the U.S.

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Goliath Herons at Lake Panic

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One was especially excited and adopted a very submissive posture in an attempt to get the adult to feed it. After yakking up some fish soup for the greedier of his two offspring the parent took a well deserved drink of water while the second youngster complained that she (who had been patient up ’til now) had not yet been fed.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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End result – precious birding time lost and 43 adopted African kids. The bizarre Pel’s Fishing Owl by Adam Riley (Rockjumper Birding Tours) Chirinda Apalis by Adam Riley Further north of Haroni-Rusitu one comes to the Bvumba Highlands.

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I Remember Elephants

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Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders? Steven had no binoculars, but impressively sharp eyes and great knowledge of birds.

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Orange-headed Thrush

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The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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