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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). Howell turns all that on its head.

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

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And, the One-page Index, a quick reference to locating major bird families, is placed in two locations–the front and the back of the book. Family groups are briefly introduced with descriptions of their shared characteristics. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before! The text pages have a lively look.

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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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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

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This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. Sheep may timidly graze but these Black Grouse are another matter altogether. Blackcocks at the Lek (1901) by Scottish painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).

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Antpittas and Gnateaters: A Book Review

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Antpittas and Gnateaters covers 64 species in six genera and two families. (I Here’s Plate 3, the third plate for Conopophaga , one of the two genera of the Gnateater family. Books that focus on a bird family tend to be mostly about identification and plumage. Antpittas and Gnateaters. by Harold F. 496 pages, 7.1

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