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Astonishing Move By UK Government to Control Buzzards

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Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases). of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.”

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Researchers have also found that bobcats and mountain lions exposed to diphacinone and other first generation anticoagulants have an increased susceptibility to mange —to the point where it has caused serious illness and death. Sincerely, Craig A.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research.

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Ty’s Hawk

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For a heart-stopping second he lost altitude, then he raised his wings and rocketed up toward the far trees. Cindy wrote on her blog that from now on whenever she sees a hawk in flight, she’ll wonder if it’s Ty’s. The pastor said a prayer, the cherry picker rose, Lisa opened the crate, and the redtail barreled out.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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