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New Rat Dissection App for iPad

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Anything to help stop the dissection of real mice in schools.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. It’s not fecal material, but parts that are not digestible like fur, bones and the exoskeletons of insects.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. 61: dissection showing upper mandible, lower mandible, and tongue, photo by Tim Birkhead, © Tim Birkhead; text © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Intervention: Stringer Edition

10,000 Birds

After you have collected their mistakes, dissect them. After the dissection is complete, you then unleash a tidal wave of evidence that proves their strung rarity has been misidentified. When you catch a stringer in the act, first try to figure out what they are hearing/looking act that makes them think a bird is a certain species.

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On Cat Killers and Mental Competency

Animal Person

There have been inquiries as to the possible relationship between his dissection of cats in school and the 19 counts of cruelty he is being charged with. Weinman had participated in cat dissection in school, and that is being discussed as a possible trigger for his behavior. There's sadism there, and that's not good.

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A Bird’s Eye View of the Rainwater Basin

10,000 Birds

Funk WPA is about three miles long and is dissected by roads and dikes. Funk WPA is the largest WPA in the District, consisting of 1989 total acres (1163 acres of wetland, 826 acres of upland). Located near Holdrege, Nebraska, it is known for spring migration and occasional Whooping Cranes.

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Review: National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America

10,000 Birds

Fortunately for you, though, when I got home I found a review copy of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Birds of North America by Jonathan Alderfer and Paul Hess ready and waiting to be dissected for your delectation. The target audience of this book is not the jet-setting hardcore birder, or even the dedicated local lister.