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Witherspoon in Trouble for Python Purse

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For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

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One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place. (Barn Owls weigh about a pound); 2) access fact-filled sites like the Peregrine Fund or the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ; or 3) call any raptor rehabilitation center, and whoever answers the phone will tell you that the information on Facebook is bunk.

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Evening Grosbeaks Really Do Exist

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Sometimes it was just a matter of looking harder — walking a little further into the woods to get my first glimpse of a Blackburnian Warbler or being in just the right place at the right time to spot an elusive Yellow-billed Cuckoo. And living my life in the same place, I’d find them. Well, eventually.

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Followup: Witherspoon Will Stop Carrying Python Purse

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She's supposedly a vegetarian and is friends with Walk the Line co-star Joaquin Phoenix who is a huge animal rights activist and vegan. I don't know what she's going to do with it, but at least she'll stop carrying it. I still don't understand what she was doing. She knew it was an animal skin.and she spent $4,000 on it?

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Yikes! Two TONS of Snakes & Tortoises Seized

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Yes, that's right. They found 3,640 pounds (1,655 kilograms) of snakes, mostly pythons, and 263 tortoises that weighed a combined 697 pounds (317 kilograms), said Col. In Cambodia. Luckily, they were alive and released back into the wild. From the AP last week. Chan Savouen, deputy police chief of Kandal province.

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“Birds & Flowers”: a book review

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It’s a pleasure to spend time with Ollerton’s prose; as a writer, he’s sometimes quirky and rollicking (with analogies to Led Zeppelin and Monty Python) — but quirky and rollicking in a good way. Based in Denmark and the U.K,

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. Note to self: If I am ever reincarnated as a Common Kestrel , I need to make sure not to have my photo taken while preening. It just looks stupid.

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