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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

10,000 Birds

Since the order went into effect, Claire Butcher continued to feed the ducks in the park and was allegedly observed bringing entire shopping carts filled with food. Birds definitely need our help when it comes to habitat preservation, but attracting hoards of birds is not the way. Grackle Guy?

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

On the way, he told me a story of one of the senior (retired) archaeologists in the department sneaking into another archaeologist’s office to read a manuscript he had been hoarding. He sneaked into the office by crawling along the ledge outside the fifth floor windows and prying his way into the guy’s window.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

Like my mother, the Chinese Nuthatch habitually hoards food (HBW).

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