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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

10,000 Birds

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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The Winter of our Discontent

10,000 Birds

The resident Peregrine Falcons have been fattening up on them, piles of feathers mark their collective demise on my favourite birding spot. I’ve neglected their company too long, but they always let me know that the winter isn’t so bad, not when you can spend it with great birds like them.

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What hasn’t changed is our collective commitment to delivering the best of birding, nature, conservation, and commentary on a daily basis. Many of us have neglected or outright abandoned our feed readers. rss ) and trends (e.g., blog carnivals ) come and go.

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Little guy with big heart helping animals!

4 The Love Of Animals

Ready to respond at a moment’s notice, the HSUS Animal Rescue Team uses its equipment, expertise, and other resources to assist law enforcement agencies with investigation, evidence collection, and animal seizure as well to coordinate animal care, sheltering, and relocation. More than $1 million was raised from the To The Rescue!

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Raising Money For the RSPCA with MusicMagpie

4 The Love Of Animals

Once you have gathered up all you cds, dvds, and video games go online to the musicMagpie website and scan in their barcodes using a web cam – alternatively manually enter the digits of your unwanted collection online and you will be given an individual price for each one.

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Direct Mail Programs are Poised for a Comeback

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But for now, URLs are more popular than QR codes, so don’t neglect to add them. 36% even have a specific place in their home for these ads. Why They Work Why are direct mail programs so popular among consumers? QR codes are interactive, curiosity-piquing and easier to follow up with than printed URLs. It’s time to get printing!

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Smile!

4 The Love Of Animals

The video is a collection of photos of dogs and cats, who appear to be smiling, set to music.” ’ We wanted to bring attention to the terrible abuse and neglect of animals, but in a positive way, without showing dogs and cats beaten or in cages. People have responded incredibly well to our approach.”.