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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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There’s also a much greater variety of species of deer living here now than than there were four or five hundred years ago, for along with our native Roe and Red Deer we also have large populations of Fallow, Sika, Reeves’s Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer. Reeves’s Muntjac , a highly successful invasive species in the UK.

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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

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Each of the six species in Costa Rica sports beautiful plumage with green and blue hues highlighted with rufous tones, and several also have long, racket-tipped tails. It was tough to pick out just one tanager species, many are downright stunning. Bat Falcon. Dressed to kill, the deadly Bat Falcon eats more than bats.

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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

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If it was any indication of where my passion lay, instead of racing home like the proverbial bat out of hell, I stayed put to monitor this supposed nest. Although relatively common here they’re notoriously difficult to see well – a phenomenon clearly not unique to this species ! Bay-headed Tanagers. Turquoise Tanager.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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New U.S. Rule Extends Length of Eagle-Death Permits for Wind Farms

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It’s not just eagles, either; other bird and bat species also fall victim to the turbines.) Nevertheless, killing an eagle is a federal crime in the United States, and recently a wind energy company linked to eagle deaths settled with the federal government.

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Glue Trapped

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Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Like leg hold traps, glue traps are indiscriminate, with non-targeted species making up a large proportion of their catch.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.