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Penguins, Parrots and Wine on Matiu / Somes Island

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Across the water is the Miramar Peninsula, where the Hobbit is presently being filmed. The highlight of the weekend was seeing a pair foraging on a beach, searching the sand and tide strands for various morsels like a turnstone, and approaching the dozing New Zealand Fur Seal without the slightest sign of fear. I’ll work on that.

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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

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Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an attractive, modern-looking edition by Trinity University Press.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. The carrier was a normal cardboard box, but the opossum was nestled on a square of white fur, surrounded by pinecones and greenery, and all of it was festively tied with a ribbon. How did Crystal react?

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Royal Shags and Tricky Parakeets: Birding Queen Charlotte Sound

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In the early morning out on the water there were plenty of Fluttering Shearwaters and Australasian Gannets, and close to a salmon farm we found New Zealand Fur Seals as well as Pied Shags, Little Shags and Spotted Shags (I can only assume that kiwis just like calling all cormorants shags because they are all five years old).

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

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2010 Fur Ball at the Skirball Hosted by Jenna Fischer. Last year Kitten Rescue celebrated 12 years and more than 10,000 lives saved with the Second Annual Fur Ball fundraiser dinner! Join us as we continue the tradition with the 2010 Fur Ball at the Skirball, hosted by Jenna Fischer from NBC’s The Office.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

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Also present in good El Nino years are the occasional and much sought after Blue Petrel with its distinctive black sub-terminal tail band with white trailing edge, a unique diagnostic feature amongst petrels.

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Comebackers

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They are often present on Laysan Island and Kure Atoll as well; a female-female pair on Kure Atoll have yet to involve a male in nesting activities. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. this species breeds.

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