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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

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In fact, if I remember correctly, it was 2013 when I first noticed (from an office window) a huge collection of sticks at the crown of a large immortelle tree. Before we got to our destination, I pulled the car over to investigate an almost deafening twittering. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery.

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

10,000 Birds

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. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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Maharashtra, February 2013. As our Gypsy comes to a halt, one Oriental Honey Buzzard is investigating the new arrivals. 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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