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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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(Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.).

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Thirteen years of weekly posts

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This rocky area high up beyond the beach sand offers great camouflage and protection. They will do it for other threats as a distraction to protect their eggs or chicks. They can be two or three kilometres away, but if the nest-sitter calls the other one will soon arrive to help protect. I suppose they know me!

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure.

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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

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She’s a lover of all things geek and is happiest when cuddling with her dogs and catching up on the latest Marvel movies. Conservationists at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have been using remote controlled drones to watch the nests of endangered breeds and monitor the progress of reintroduced species.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

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On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function. This would make it possible even for somebody like me who really does not like kids to have some, though I think the world is better without them anyway. would be cats for me, but you get the general idea).

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

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“A survey in 2011 in non-protected areas of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh confirmed the presence of the species at two locations. An individual was located in Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary in the Thane district in 2014.” Nagzira Tiger Reserve: the Indian Wild Dog. Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

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(I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. It’s spelled this way, all caps, because that is the official name.).

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