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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. I guess it would not be ok to do this to your own relatives, but with strangers, it is probably ok.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. They emerged from their bloody rampage leaving fifteen adults dead, and fifteen destroyed nests with either smashed or missing eggs. He didn’t do it.

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How do bird species compete with each other?

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We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various ways make sense. 4) show that female western bluebirds experiencing increased conflict with individuals from non-bluebird species have more androgens in their eggs and produce sons that hatch early.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

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Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Laura Erickson and Marie Read’s Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds (2015). Baicich and Colin J.

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Prop 2 Passes in California

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4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.” It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves. on Prop 2 campaign.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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He’s also worked with the National Wildlife Refuge System, co-led birding tours to Alaska, and co-authored A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). Texas A&M University Press, 2015. Margaret A. The writers have created a good book. If you are one of those 58.2 Baicich, Margaret A.

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