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Osprey Cam

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One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood. This is my first season with the ranch, and I’m very excited to being putting some of my theories about nest cams into practice.

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The Izu scincid lizards (Plestiodon latiscutatus) that inhabit the four Japanese Izu Islands with only bird predators are drab brown, mature later, lay small clutches of large eggs, and hatch large neonates. All I see are their buts.

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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Here is a handy exercise that you can try to give you long frustrating hours on the computer and provide a good excuse to avoid contact with the rest of humanity. A stem of plant material with a cluster of pink Apple Snail’s eggs are marring the picture by covering part of the eye. Take the Wood Sandpiper above as an example.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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When we eat eggs we eat chicken eggs almost exclusively. An exotic species (see Glossary) may appear in Florida because of deliberate transport and release by humans, or because of inadvertent escape from captivity. Americans love chicken. In 2008, over nine billion chickens were slaughtered for Americans to eat.

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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

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Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. Besides, when it comes to birthday parties it's not like my vegan kid would have anything to eat.

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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? ” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans.

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Parental Investment Theory

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You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Think about the difference between birds and mammals. as both use internal fertilization. All the nurturing has to come from mom.

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