10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

struck out on the “common feeder birds” But I’d never had much luck with irruptives in the east — no Common Redpolls , no Bohemian Waxwings , and my quest for a Pine Siskins was a Monty Python farce. Fish and Wildlife Service. And living my life in the same place, I’d find them.

Pythons 218

Pythons Litter Montana 2006 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is a juvenile Grey-headed Fish Eagle , unless it is another fish eagle like the Lesser (the lack of any grey head makes me doubt the identification a bit, but it seems juveniles cannot afford a grey head yet). He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept. Jerdon has also been noted as being rash.

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Birds Elephants Eagles Rhinoceros 246

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. There is a list of human victims of captive snakes, including a 2-year-old girl who was strangled in her crib by a pet Burmese python who had escaped from its enclosure.

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New York Times Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States New York 40