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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. We start with Lendrum being arrested in 2010 at the Birmingham (U.K.)

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Make sure you look after your pet with insurance

4 The Love Of Animals

Sheila Stewart, of Capricom Animal Rescue centre in Mold, United Kingdom, said that she believes that this can be overcome by the animal’s owners taking out pet insurance. The breed of the animal-with pure bred animals more expensive than mongrels and moggies. The importance of pet insurance. The location of your home.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

As 2012 draws to a close we here at 10,000 Birds thought that it would be a great idea if we, like we did in 2010 and 2011 , shared our Best Birds of the Year. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. Adam Riley chose a bird that is near and dear to Mike Bergin’s heart.

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