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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

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And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? I recently watched Earthlings and cried the whole way through.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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This means its parents did not abandon the incomplete nest, as they do when a potential predator is nearby: “Grey Fantails desert incomplete nests in response to the attention of predators [which we tested] by placing a mounted Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), a common nest predator, near fantail nests that were under construction.”

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

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It is listed as Vulnerable, as its range is rather restricted, though it has been found outside of China as well, e.g., in Vietnam, though the HBW does not seem to have read that paper yet. Some ornithologists are so desperate to add papers to their resumes that they write about new records of Black-crested Bulbul subspecies within China.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China. I lowered the volume and after a while they got used to it and slowly went back to sleep.”

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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The guide, one of the last offerings in the Peterson Field Guide series from publisher HMH, shows photos of nests of most North American species and describes nest structure, location, how the bird makes the nest, number of eggs, and what the eggs look like. Donna). ==. But craziness is not a requisite.

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