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Swarovski NL Pure – the Sexiest Binoculars Ever

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When I saw the NL Pure in a webinar for the first time, immediately – before the webinar ended, I asked my Swarovski sales rep for a pair to test. I kept them in my backpack until yesterday, didn’t want to hold them, to get any impressions… I wanted to test them as a tabula rasa (a clean slate). And today I did.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

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But as of right now there is nowhere in the United States where a birder can see a chicken and count it on his or her list despite the fact that there is a well established and long lasting Feral Chicken population in the Florida Keys. It is time for the Florida Ornithological Society to allow for the counting of Feral Chickens.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live.

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Powder Puff, RIP, and More

Animal Person

And if he looked fine he wouldn't have been tested. And if he didn't look fine and was tested he probably would have been euthanized. So his suffering was basically prolonged because he looked good on that one day, and because testing is done only if there are symptoms. Hmm--that's an interesting one.

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Manky Muscovy Ducks

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Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. The word manky means many things in British parlance from dirty and disgusting to inferior and worthless.

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Pahokee Opens for Project Treadstone

Animal Person

They will spay/neuter, vaccinate, tip ears and microchip , and they do not test. Here's the biggest feral cat I've ever seen, who looks like somebody's house cat. A branch of Palm Beach County's Animal Care & Control that has been closed for a long, long time and has reopened. The cost is $25 and they will do up to 10 at a time!

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Thankfully, there are alternatives to what I ended up doing, taking down the feeders, and they are detailed in the second part of the book, where we learn about the development of bird-safe sheet glass and the use of patterns or films on already installed glass windows.