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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

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If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace.

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Portuguese City Tries to End Killing of Strays

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From the Portugal News Online. Under Portuguese legislation, stray and unwanted animals that are kept in municipal kennels, even healthy ones, can be put down after eight days if unclaimed. Generally, those that have been there for a longer period are destroyed as the kennels reach maximum capacity, to accommodate new arrivals.

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Feral Cats More Important Than Humans?

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Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feral cat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feral cat colony. News cats New York City' She was cyber-bullied, her business was destroyed, and she took her own life.

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Stray Dog Rescued in Mumbai

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An old stray dog was wounded in the Mumbai attacks and rescued. Sadly, he is the lucky one in a city filled with starving strays. Sheru was a stray dog hit by an errant bullet when two gunmen opened fire in a crowded railway station during the first night of the assault. Tags: India animal rescue strays dogs.

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McKee Project Helps Latin America's Strays

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Tags: animal cruelty spay/neuter latin america strays companion animals.

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Sad End for Vagrant Swift, Happy Ending for Wrong-Way Pigeon

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While the stray Needletail met a tragic demise, another long-distance traveler has escaped its brush with death. Lucky for him, a Canadian racing club is giving him a new home, and may even put him out to stud, a reward this pigeon has no doubt earned. Photo from ABC News.

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Red-necked Phalarope, Globetrotter Extraordinaire

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The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America. News geotagging migration Red-necked Phalarope Scotland UK' In either case, they’ve got a travel history that would leave most humans’ passports in the dust.

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