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The Amusing Case of the Gulf Breeze Zoo Canada Geese

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The first time I visited the 30 acre enclosure, I walked the raised boardwalk over the space with eyes wide. On large islands shaded with multiple trees, a family of orangutans and another of gorillas lounged in the green grass. The Canada Geese (on the right side) show no fear. Where were the babies?

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it – Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several species of bird in the genera Macropygia , Reinwardtoena, and Turacoena of the pigeon family.” But I may well be wrong.

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Costa Rica’s Signature Parakeet

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In being wonderfully obvious, such birds become avian ambassadors, special “signature” species with the potential to raise bird awareness, to reconnect crucial links between people and the nature that surrounds them, with the ecosystems they partake in. In northern habitats, they could be Common Ravens, geese , or chickadees.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them. In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Week four: We wrap up our stay in the US.

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This location is great as it is close to Jeanne’s Family, as well as a very short drive to the Billy Frank Jr. A beautiful series of raised boardwalks have been constructed, allowing year round access to the area, thru the marsh area, all the way out nearly a half mile into the tidal flats. Nisqually NWR.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. The first few years for female ducks and geese are kind of practice rounds. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Australian Painted Snipe breeding near Broome

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Magpie Geese were breeding close to the main highway south of Broome and so were the Whiskered Terns , White-winged Black Terns , Purple Swamphens , Comb-crested Jacanas , Wandering Whistling Ducks and Plumed Whistling Ducks. The more brightly coloured female bird remained at the back of the family group as they swam to shore.

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