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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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Just over a year after I helped care for this bird, in the summer of 2005, a series of tropical storms (including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita) knocked Louisiana’s coast, as my great-grandmother would have said, from “Hell to breakfast.”. Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! I’m glad we lived.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. Not only has he authored multiple field guides, and prose works, too (such as the classic coming-of-age-as-a-birder story, Kingbird Highway ).

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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v=gJma0Szy8R8 References: 1 University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, June 2005. As a result, certain activities affecting swallows are subject to legal restrictions 1. I wonder what that’s all about? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJma0Szy8R8 Authors: T.

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Last Chance to Enter

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Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or

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Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?

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These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Happy 12th Birthday Violet Rays!

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We spent the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 getting fired by vet after vet. He told me to stop going to the vet because that's what was killing Violet Rays. Then there's her hideous gum disease that has left her few remaining teeth in bad shape but without much to do for them (the vets won't touch them). She's our 62-pound miracle.

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