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Good news for the Wood Stork

10,000 Birds

The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. I have seen them foraging on sandy shores of rivers deep in the Amazon, enjoyed them in their raucous breeding colonies in the Everglades, flushed them out of canals during walks around my house, and perhaps more importantly contribute to their recovery. Photo: U.S.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation.

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An unusual auk baby

10,000 Birds

Starvation and predators make it hard to grow up, and birds have evolved a lot of strategies to give (at least some of) their chicks the best chance in life. One strategy that varies among birds (and other animals) is the number of offspring. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. The Profiles are engaging reading, much livelier than most identification guides, reflecting the broader scope and goals.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. But the starting point has to be a real attraction, not a fake one.

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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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Flock to Marion

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These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows. and seabirders.