10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. Teams named for Homo sapiens historically do better in this game. Based on team name alone, NO.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

The scale of massacres is such that in 2001 the Italian customs found 120,702 dead birds from Serbia in just one lorry. And that flight is illegal because EU legislation does not allow export of game meat from Serbia to EU. Then comes summer and the birds start migrating. The Turtle Dove is not a trophy animal.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. The homeless dog, once called Bones, renamed Blue, who played a “hide and seek game” with Cody, to protect himself and stay alive, ends up at Cody’s side. “I

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The trip was probably reasonably well planned and it would have been known to these travelers that game birds, as well as deer and fish, were abundant in the region they were traveling to. et al 2001. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise. Of Plymouth Plantation. Crawford, R.D.

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