4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Mountains. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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America Sheep Penguins South America 100

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JULY 18, 2013

In North America we only have three regularly occurring ibis, the aforementioned White Ibis and the two species of the genus Plegadis , White-faced Ibis and the far reaching Glossy Ibis , a species we share with every continent save Antarctica making it one of the world’s most cosmopolitan bird species.

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North America Charlotte Birds Miami 209

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JULY 7, 2020

The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. Some of the chapters focus on a specific bird, most are about bird families like hawks, tanagers, wrens, etc.,

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2020 Birds North America Sparrows 263

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JULY 27, 2012

The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 235

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MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 177

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 202

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. Which would be weird.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 201

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JUNE 3, 2014

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Their names echo musically in my brain (and challenge my typing skills) as I look at photos fuzzy and sharp, and read tales of habitat encroachment, avian disease, and hunting.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 266

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

02–19 There may be a crisis of the Duck Stamp, and the relationship between duck hunting, habitat preservation, and funding may be shifting as Duck numbers and Duck stamp sales no longer correlate. 01–15 Who could forget the catfish that figured out how to eat birds ? With global warming, this has meant earlier hatching.

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Science 2013 Elephants Ducks 187

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JANUARY 1, 2019

John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. More like five hours, if you don’t count gas and lunch stops, and, seriously, who stops for lunch when you are after the probable first Great Black Hawk sighted in North America? ” [[link].

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