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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

10,000 Birds

Rehabbers are very responsive, although constantly living under the gun makes us sometimes vent about species that aren’t necessarily the ones in question. Porcupines throw their quills! Porcupines can’t shoot their quills, any more than people can shoot their hair. Feel free to vent!”. Bats just love to fly into human hair!”

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The Narrow-lined Puffer

10,000 Birds

Like the related boxfish and porcupine fish they tend not to be particularly fast or particularly concerned by divers, but they aren’t showy like angelfish or lion fish in a way that attracts much attention. In fact, puffers are pretty antisocial, and this species is noted as being that and solitary on the Wikipedia page of the species.

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What is the National Bird of Panama?

10,000 Birds

Interestingly, the eagle featured in Panama’s coat of arms is not the Harpy Eagle, but a representation of an American eagle species, as the United States was the first country to recognize Panama’s independence. A Harpy Eagle. Like Woods, I can’t get over their talons.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Tags: vietnam exotic meats wildlife trafficking bush meat endangered species. A WCS study conducted at 200 restaurants in the central region found they consumed nearly 2 million wild animals per year.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! Although, it is not for the first time when inter-species adoption occurs, but every single case is getting more and more exciting – animals can not only be friends, but parents and brothers as well.

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Photo Essay: Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult

10,000 Birds

Getting intimate with a species over the course of the breeding cycle is one of the more rewarding aspects of birding, and field research too. stuffing the chicks full of delicious seeds, most commonly including seeds from species of Croton and Hyptus. My co-worker thinks a better name for them is porcupine parrotlets.

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New Jersey Birds and Beyond: A Brief Book Review

10,000 Birds

New Jersey Birds and Beyond showcases about 180 bird species commonly found in New Jersey, from Great Blue Heron to Red-winged Blackbird, as well as some exceptional visitors, such as the Cape May Ivory Gull. The Porcupine is particularly cute!) Some interesting coffee table-type titles have been reviewed in 10,000 Birds.