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The Metamorphosis

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The logic goes like this: Grey-headed Swamphen are an invasive species that has spread in Florida from a few escapees, and is now fairly widespread in South Florida after initial eradication programs failed. Some people want Grey-headed Swamphens to be gone from Florida (photo taken in China, though).

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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

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“We had a call one morning about a snake and a hawk,” says Tom Sweets, the executive director and chief rescuer of the Key West Wildlife Center , located at the very tip of Florida. KWWC captures injured, sick or orphaned wild chickens, then adopts them out to homes on the mainland. Want to help this great place?

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Sssshhhh!!!! Donna is now a Beat Writer

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Donna Lynn Schulman was one of the kind Queens birders who helped Corey find his way around his adopted borough when he moved to New York City. Just make sure you stay quiet when reading her posts because she is, after all, a librarian! Want to learn more about Donna? Read on dear reader, read on. Welcome aboard, Donna!

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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Cattle Egret was first recorded in Florida in 1941 (although originally these were dismissed as escapes), and officially bred in Florida in 1953. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of April 2016)

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The birds had already adopted their drab eclipse plumage, unlike the winter warrior featured in the photo above. And on that note, do we really believe Corey saw the famous Florida Cuban Vireo if he doesn’t have visual evidence? What can I say? I didn’t think I’d need a photo.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Similar limits were approved last year in Michigan and less sweeping restrictions have been adopted in Florida, Arizona and other states. In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages.

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US Judge Asked to Hear Case about Orcas

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PETA claims the captured killer whales are treated like slaves, forced to live in tanks and perform daily at its parks in San Diego, California and Orlando, Florida. when the constitution was adopted. Sea World's lawyer, Theodore Shaw, called the lawsuit a waste of the court's time and resources.

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