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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Call me old fashioned if you like, but I rather like many of these old names, as they put a bit of colour and interest into birding, especially if you bother to investigate who exactly the birds are named after. written by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins, published by Christopher Helm in 2003. It’s full of fascinating facts.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. In 2003, Hare traveled to Novosibirsk and ran his pointing test on baby foxes. Others lashed out and were killed. Wolves also lick one another’s mouths, particularly when one wolf returns to the pack.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. Two fairly recent NRDA studies investigating the impacts of marine oil spills on Common Loons in New England (North Cape in 1996, Buzzards Bay in 2002) would have benefited from knowing whether Common Loons exhibited winter site fidelity.

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