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Evening Grosbeaks Really Do Exist

10,000 Birds

But between 1988 and 2006, Project Feedwatch showed a fifty-percent decline in Evening Grosbeak sightings. The husks of box elder seeds littered the ground, neatly stripped and devoured. And in all the years I’d been waiting and hoping, not one big yellow-and-black finch had showed up at my parents’ feeders.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. After a waterfall display the performer may sit on a rock, his eyes following the falling water.

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