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The Devil Is In The D-Con

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Activists and environmental groups went into overdrive, and in March 2014 the State of California approved a ban on the sale of the worst types of anti-coagulants. In April 2014, a 4-year-old boy in the Bronx, New York, died after eating rat poison. Safe Rodent Control will tell you how to rodent-proof without poison.

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On the threshold of flight

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” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.

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The Ultimate Reward

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Stroll through the park, which turns out to be at least twice the size I expected it to be, tiny Goldcrests and numerous Long-eared Owls … These owls spend winter roosting in parks where there is no pesticide spraying, supposedly because of larger population of rodents in towns and villages.

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Stolpman Vineyards: Para Maria de los Tecolotes (2017)

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Para Maria de los Tecolates is a California red wine blend from Stolpman Vineyards of Santa Barbara County, released every year since 2014. The wine was named by Ruben Solorzano, a well-known figure in California’s Central Coast wine region, for his wife, Maria.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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610)) to a little history (“The elegant White-tailed Kite was formerly shot in large numbers by farmers who thought it threatened their chickens, although these birds feed almost entirely on insects and a few rodents” (p. 334) is how Black Skimmer is introduced). New York Times, March 11, 1996. link] Howell, Steve N.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Naish, D., & Dyke, G.

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The return of the Black-shouldered Kite

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Any road-kill soon gets cleaned up and small rodents and lizards need to keep their eyes to the sky! They returned in 2014 and 2015 and now there is one back in that tree! Black-shouldered Kites do not tend to be around Broome all year and are highly nomadic. 94 south and 122 31 51.

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