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Birds of Visselhövede in Winter

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This sounds like an exciting topic for a blog post, right? For a birdwatcher, it is rather nice to be at a place where – unlike my 13th floor Shanghai apartment – there are birds right outside the house. The garden benefits from benign neglect, and a variety of bird feed is on offer.

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New Hub for Animal Rights

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Stephanie Ernst, formerly of Change.org , has started a new space called " Animal Rights and AntiOppression " and she has invited yours truly to post there! I am Mary Martin, and my first post is " On the Neglect of Animals by The Left." I'll be posting as Mary Martin, because. I welcome you to visit, look around, and chime in!

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The First Swallow-tail of Spring

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I glanced over to my right to see a sleek black and white raptor crest the horizon and dive back down behind a row of trees on a nearby golf course. My only regret in all of this, and it’s not an insignificant one, was that I had neglected to reset my camera before this thing came upon me. Swallow-tailed Kite.

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After The Birds Of Summer Have Gone

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It is the featureless nature of the sea of blue, spanning from horizon to horizon, its neglect of offering a foothold to the wandering eye that binds my thoughts. The sky has been haunting me for days now. They have gone. It isn’t their time of arrival here, as it coincides with the arrival of many an African migrant.

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Many of us have neglected or outright abandoned our feed readers. But who has time to visit a blog every day, right? All you need to do is enter your email address right here: Email address: Of course we won’t be selling your email information or anything like that.

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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Right click on this point on the donor picture. Keep your finger away from the right click button at this time as any click here will reset the cloning point and make it difficult to realign. Completely remove the stem and other intrusions before right-clicking to reset. Here we will choose the catchlight in the bird’s eye.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A Guan was collected in 1876 in a mangrove forest near the border between Peru and Ecuador. What a horror! What a disaster!