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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

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The only way we know that the species even existed is because of the single specimen and the notes Bloxam took, which, in addition to the part reproduced above, included that the bird that became the specimen was “killed hopping about in a tree.” ” … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!

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But when the biological imperative to breed is on the brain, and springtime is peak time for thinking about breeding, they can become raving psychos, each bird desperate to lay claim to a nest box that would allow it to raise young and thereby pass on its DNA to the next generation and win the evolutionary sweepstakes.

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Nests were in hollows in palm trees. … Extinction is forever.

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Contemplating California Condors

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They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. Of course, there are those things to consider. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. My first view of them was at a distance. They scavenge, making them reliant on nature’s whims.

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Sherry Turner Teas: Brown Thrasher vs. Black Widow

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In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.) Of course, after seeing it was a spider, the first thing that came to my mind was “Ahh, Lilly saved me from that vile thing!” It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. I am terrified of spiders.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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It is these, of course, that drew the attention of the Bronze Age people and their unusual ibis-based cultural fascination with the bird. White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Anyone with a passing interest in Egyptian mythology has seen the man with the ibis head, the god Thoth.

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Kerkini in Winter

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They are, of course, a smaller more compact goose, but picking out the various distinguishing features (such as the yellow eye ring) at such range is invariably challenging, to say the least. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Often the best clue is counting the flock.

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