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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. It is possible that Columbus brought Turkeys back to Spain, but if he did, he did not bring them from the Caribbean Islands he spent much of his time in, because they did not exist there. According to R.D.

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Noudar Nature Park, Portugal

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On the last day we headed towards the border with Spain to the west and the village of Barrancos. In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland. They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects.

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Mexican Senators Look at Banning Bullfights

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Several groups, including Spain's Plataforma Prou, the Mexican Association for Animal Rights, or Amedea, and the Proyecto Proteccion Animal, have been consulted on the bill, Moreno said.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. Sort Of.

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Boris once told me a hysterically funny story in which he discovered his ex-wife in the process of adopting a Russian orphan without telling him. From the middle of the melee a man glared up at us, as if he suspected we were secretly rooting for Spain. “ He told it in a perfect Russian accent, hence the name (and his eventual divorce).

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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It starts as follows: “Historical variations (1966–2016) in the exposure to inorganic elements in raptors of South West Spain have been little studied.” A bit like being adopted, I guess. It is like the old sheepshagger joke … Searching for papers on the Common Kestrel , one abstract immediately caught my attention.

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Redbreast Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey (12-Year)

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The robin’s famous red breast really is more of a rusty orange, but the word “orange” wouldn’t enter into English from Old French as a color name until the 1510s (and it was probably even later that the Welsh adopted the cognate oren ).

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