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Big Year Birding Update

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Not only that, but they are doing their big year to raise money for the Houston Audubon Society and the Katy Prairie Conservancy. She is also doing her big year to raise money to help a youngster, Peyton Behrens, in his fight against leukemia.

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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

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Into the souvenir shop for some local coffee, chocolate and cocoa, then a coffee mug with an image of a Three-toed Sloth and the Field Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica, and off we go. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us.

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Why Red-ruffed Fruitcrow?

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The American tropics surely have their share of orioles, warblers, doves, jays, and other types of birds that birders as far north as Canada or even the Arctic Circle might encounter. Encountering this stunner, one of the largest passerines in South America, raises a number of questions.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.

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Bunny Love

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Predators that rely on lemmings, like the Snowy Owl , took advantage of the bounty and had great breeding success, raising large broods which, after the lemming population crashes, dispersed far and wide. Last summer saw lemmings at a high point in their population cycles.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Read Carl Hiaasen.”.

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Thank a lemming

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If they each raised nine owlets, the owlets alone would have eaten over 25,000 lemmings from that valley. A brood of nine chicks will be fed something in the order of 1500 lemmings from the time they are hatched until they are independent. Remember that friend of mine that saw 17 breeding pairs of Snowy Owls in a single valley?

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