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I need advice. Bad. (TW: Animal abuse talk)

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It got worse and worse as time went on, especially bad after in 2019 we got my second dog lily. I’ve been dealing with him being especially bad as a brother and animal owner since 2019, when he became physically and mentally abusive and it really started to show. Any of the ones I have. And anything I do bothers him.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” Dragan]: Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide , by Hume, Still, Swash, and Harrop is a photographic guide.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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She writes, “Broadly, I am interested in the evolutionary mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation and population divergence in animals, primarily birds.” New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles, Biology Letters , publishe April 03, 2019, [link].

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal). Netherlands: Oliver Plantema, 2020.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Color helps show the subtle gorgeous variabilities of different species’ gray-brown-black-white plumage (particularly notable in a page featuring side-by-side portraits of four totally different species by Brad Wilson, a professional photographer who specializes in dramatic animal portraits) and gives an immediacy to action shots.

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals. My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L. Their heads and necks writhe and twist and they make hissing noises when threatened, earning them the old English name “snakebird” (take that, Anhinga!)

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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.” There are many variations on this traditional farmer’s adage about sowing, which instructs the planter to scatter four seeds for every plant one hopes to harvest, so as to account for inevitable losses to birds and other hungry animals scouring the fields.

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