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MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Acrocephalus palustris is the old world Marsh Warbler, and is one of the birds in the Chernobyl area. And, of course, of all the tissues that make up a bird or a mammal, neural tissue is the most demanding of oxygen. A recent study, Chernobyl Birds Have Smaller Brains , looks at this in birds at Chernobyl.

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Mammals Birds Fish Cooking 240

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JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Trips Mammals South Africa' Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 197

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APRIL 17, 2012

Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. October 26, 2011 BP is awarded a permit to drill another exploratory well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 241

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APRIL 15, 2015

I must admit that I was astonished as I had never considered Ghana a potential birding destination, nor knew of any birders who had ever been there. My clients insisted that they wanted to go to Ghana as they had heard that the birding was great. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 196

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MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

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AUGUST 21, 2013

Several months separated Christchurch’s first big quake from the catastrophic one in 2011. Kauri are another contender, as well as the enigmatic and now extinct lineage of land mammals from the fossil record. It could be over already, or we could actually be building up to something larger. Only time will tell.

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New Zealand Vanuatu Australia Hawaii 168

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AUGUST 20, 2011

Or, if you can’t get to the park you could just enjoy these pictures, all taken in August of 2011. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of mammals and other creatures make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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Deer Mules Alaska Mammals 140

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

I dreamed of birding the Sundarbans delta – roughly the size of Connecticut or Cyprus – ever since my very dear friends Tim and Hanna Balke told me a story of their visit to these swamps where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mehgna rivers converge in the Bengal basin.

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 188

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MAY 4, 2017

Written by an ornithologist who is also a birder and who embraces the world from an ecological viewpoint that sees birds as part of larger systems of evolution, succession, and mutualism, The New Neotropical Companion is the textbook-that-is-not-a-textbook you always wanted to read, though you may not know it yet. Press, 2011).

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 158

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Recently, the news came out that beloved Archaeopteryx is not really a bird ancestor. This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship. The second kind of trait are those held in common by different bird and non-bird lineages because of common ancestry.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 254

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MARCH 27, 2013

I’ve got nothing for you bird wise this month. Luckily I know that the readers of 10,000 Birds brim with curiousity of the natural world. Technically it is Comet C/2011 L4 (Pan-Starrs) but we can call it Pan-Starrs, after the observatory that discovered it.

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2014 2013 Mammals 2011 161

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

With help from federal grants, state agencies, supportive legislators, and a devoted, knowledgeable staff, the Meadowlands slowly becomes a habitable place for birds, mammals, and other wildlife, a place where people can go to enjoy beauty in the middle of the densest populated area in the country.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 154

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012

This thrush is extremely common in urban and suburban Germany and one of the most conspicuous bird species here, comparable to the American Robin in North America. A few dead birds were collected by authorities and sent to a laboratory for investigation. Some birds can be completely bald, resembling vultures.

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Germany Blackbirds 2006 Denmark 161

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Here are some U.S. is on a boat in the Aleutian chain.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 211

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Steven had no binoculars, but impressively sharp eyes and great knowledge of birds. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. One may say so.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 191

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JANUARY 22, 2015

In 2012, the Hindustani Times claimed that from January 2011 to June 2012, a further 9 tigers were killed in the Tadoba buffer zone. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' At least 274 tigers have died in India in the last four years, more than 70 per cent of them due to poaching.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 250

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals.

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