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Cats, dogs and a financially exhausted family.

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Hi, we've had two dogs (Teddy and Brandy) since 2015 who are just the cutest but on a sunny day as per his walking routine in 2018 Ted went off his leash and ran to a small kitten he found in the park who kept crying for her mother and just wouldn't leave her side.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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The first is that the illustrations by Dale Dyer are based, and largely seem to be the same, as the illustrations for his previous guide Birds of Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama (co-authored with Andrew Vallely, PUP, 2018). © 2018, Princeton University Press D. © 2003 text H.

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Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers: Kiwi Rising Double IPL

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They’ve even adopted a similarly pithy three-letter designation for these hoppy lagers, commandeering the “India pale” from IPA and awkwardly grafting it to “lager” to produce “IPL”, an appelation that’s best left abbreviated, lest its glaring ahistoricism be revealed. Happy drinking and good birding! Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Julia Blakely, rare book librarian at the Smithsonian Libraries, talks about the first editions of A Field Guide to the Birds in a 2018 post of the Smithsonian blog titled “ Spotting a First Edition of Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds.” ” This is fascinating stuff if you collect books.

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And so the “Little Big Year” begins

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Let me be quite clear here, my 2018 will not really a true “Big Year” in the sense that I spend an entire year, every day, going all over the world in an effort to establish a new record number of bird species. The first rays of sunlight brought me my first bird of 2018. And so it begins! What I am referring to my “Little Big Year”.

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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

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The Famous Grouse brand was founded in 1896 in Perth and adopted its now-legendary grouse logo sometime in the early twentieth century, an image first drawn by Phillippa Gloag, the daughter of the company owner. After all, it’s the famous grouse, leaving no room in this lek for any pretenders to the throne.

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Administrative Procedure for Birders: Duck Stamp Rulemaking

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For the 2018 competition, FWS included a one-year requirement that the theme celebrate “our waterfowl hunting heritage.” I have not reviewed every comment, but my sampling indicates that the overwhelming majority of commenters, including many hunters, opposed the proposed rule.

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