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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

10,000 Birds

Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! We had collected it to remove from the beach, but it was very useful for sea snakes.

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What’s in a Name: Wilson’s Warbler

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He fell in with a birdy crowd, including the naturalist William Bartram, who encouraged his lofty goal of illustrating all of North America’s birds, and George Ord, who accompanied him on collecting expeditions and supported and championed his work.

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The Right Kind of Help Is Not What You Think

Sales and Marketing Management

But for most, it has ravaged market ecosystems, devastated balance sheets and has left a trail of record unemployment, the purgatory of furloughed jobs and, most tragically, an open wound from the human losses. In many ways, this very humanity is bringing out the best in the often-misunderstood world of sales.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal.

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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Johann Georg Wagner has seven birds named after him, from a chachalaca to a woodpecker, but would he have found more if hadn’t accidentally shot himself while out collecting? Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

People ask me about my favorite story in the collection. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds. Although I adore my own cats, I had not realized what an important role animals can play as life draws to a close. Picking a favorite is like trying to pick a favorite child, almost impossible.

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Evolution of the Multi-Media Bird

10,000 Birds

That for the latter nature went on without them, letting them observe, seems to be proved by the fact that there doesn’t seem to be a big difference in your chance of getting wounded by a small to medium forest mammal if you are hunting them or if you are gathering plant products. Not birds, though.