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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

written by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins, published by Christopher Helm in 2003. It notes that there are around 1,000 people who have had birds named after them, but no fewer than three of them – Frank Linsly James, Eugenio Prince Ruspoli and Johan August Wahlberg – were killed by elephants, not a common form of death.

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Prairie Falcon Attack on a Northern Shoveler

10,000 Birds

Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore.

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Environmentalists recognize the meat industry as extremely ecodestructive – including fish, dairy, eggs, feed crops with their massive use of water & topsoil and toxic runoff killing rivers and oceans, and the killing of billions of free-living animals to protect farmed animals and feed crops.

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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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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed. In 2003, I raised three orphaned ruby-throats from the early pinfeather stage to release at around 30 days of age.

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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. A few years back I watched, over a few weeks, when a third Loon showed up and did battle with one (or more … you really can’t tell the Loons apart or even guess at sex) of the Loons, frequently. Thus, in light of recent marine oil spills (e.g.,

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