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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

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To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. A final thought: whether you think collective nouns are fascinating or idiotic , the more fundamental question is, why do they exist at all or, rather, how did they come to be?

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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Definitely NOT beep-beep

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But their broad collection of rather odd sounds (moans, groans, hoots, screeches, and bill rattles) also do not include anything remotely like a “ beep beep “ Popular media getting bird calls wrong. Once, and only once, did I see one way down in the state of Guanajuato of central Mexico.

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Birds at the Bell

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Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Bell collection of birds is impressive. Collection of Blue Birds. The Bell has always offered the same exact explanation for the Kite’s range getting so small, and I never quite believed it. The Mississippi Kite.

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And So It Begins

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We had a nice collection of birds of prey for the day. and Canada, it had apparently discovered an abandoned nest, on which it was clearly showing nesting behavior. There weren’t any Red-tailed Hawks. (I I can’t believe I have made it through the first twelve days of the year without seeing any Red-tailed Hawks.)

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There goes the neighborhood

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I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. Although, oddly enough, my garden is currently hosting a MacGillivray’s Warbler on its way north.

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Endangered and Unknown: Black-hooded Antwren

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Regardless, these remaining pockets of Atlantic Rainforest harbor an incredibly diverse and often highly endangered collection of bird species with well over a 100 regional endemics. First collected and described in the 19th century, this little bird escaped detection for over 100 years until its rediscovery in 1987.

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