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Osprey Cam

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One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 5)

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The now sadly retired 10,000 Birds blog writer Redgannet already covered the New Holland Honeyeater in a post published in 2013. ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. We are not counting insects.)

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