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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

New studies are beginning to show that smell may be an important part in these birds finding the right nest and/or partner under cover of darkness. This is particularly useful for a bird with small eyes that hunts under the soil surface at night. A Little-spotted Kiwi by David Shackleford And then there are the vultures.

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New Swarovski Scopes – the ATX and the STX

10,000 Birds

How about the fact that the zoom is right next to the focus on the barrel of the scope? Just move your fingers a half-inch and zoom right in on it! As cool as watching the birds was I also enjoyed watching my fellow birders test out the new optics.

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New Podcast for Week Ending February 13, 2009

Critter News

In this week’s podcast ending February 13, 2010: **Britain’s Ministry of Defense defends its use of pigs as subjects in explosives testing; **an elephant expert argues for the closing of the elephant exhibit at the Toronto Zoo; **the State of Hawaii seeks to toughen penalties for dog fighting; **Animal rights groups protest the Canadian seal hunt in (..)

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy.

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Crossley Giveaway Reminder

10,000 Birds

These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

It caught just one fin whale compared with a target of 50 in the hunt that began in November. Here's another direct action and its result, as described in an interview by Larry Mantle on KPCC Radio (it's the one called " Animal Rights vs. Animal Testing "). We wouldn't use a brain-damaged human, right? That's one result.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

10,000 Birds

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick.

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