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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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In early December of 2012 we had the opportunity to cover this hard-core rally in the south of Peru. Fred Tavares of the Brazilian team had the following to say of his team’s experience in the Amazon, “There are so many birds. Each day of the rally kicked off at the respectable time of 4 in the morning and ended after dark.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. ©2012 Donna L. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

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On June 16, 2012 R&R will be driving through Union, Middlesex, Monmouth Counties and more to bring hundreds of items to the shelter on Route 22. According to the Humane Society, over four million dogs and cats are euthanized every year with six to eight million placed in kill shelters across the country.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. Breeding and wintering locations of Common Loons in western Maine (Rangeley and Moosehead Lakes region), USA, that received PTTs in 2011 and 2012.*.

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Prairie Falcon Attack on a Northern Shoveler

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On 11 November 2012 I was leaving Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake after a fruitless morning of trying to photograph birds in a snowstorm and poor light when a female Prairie Falcon ambushed this Northern Shoveler on the water not far from the causeway on which I was driving. Here she is making one of her very low passes over the duck.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

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It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Jackson, 2012. history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope.

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