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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. The field site I am assigned to is located in one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and home to a particularly rich avifauna that numbers well over 500 species. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Initiating a hunting season on a large, charismatic species like a crane is no way to resuscitate hunting.

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Parental Investment Theory

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You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Thus, the two types of animals have very different courtship patterns. Prior to insemination, things are different as well.

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Birding – An Extreme Sport

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Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder who first passed the 8,000 species mark. It has all Big Five animals and a whole lot of other grumpy mammals. I described what I had done, and she happily started ticking every possible test for every possible tropical disease on her little lab sheet – from bubonic plague to yaws.

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The Golden Pheasant

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Here is the result of the first few websites that a Google search brought up: A-Z animals : Not included in the top 10 The Mysterious World : Included and taking the No. ” Owlcation: Included at number 7 but species may not be listed in any particular order. 3, so, yes. Legit : Included and taking the number 2 spot.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. Makes sense really.

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