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Sell your House with Birds!

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House prices which were already starting at high have now progressed past stupidly high and eye-wateringly high and are now at the point where I’m contemplating abandoning civilisation and living in a cave in Siberia. Even very rare species like Saddlebacks, Stichbirds and Whiteheads can be found in some gardens.

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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

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A possible solution may be hidden in recent news from New Zealand. An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. And the TNR/exterminate debate rages on.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food. Here’s the idea.

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Reddell Beach shorebirds

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The beach is in fact named after Captain John Alfred Reddell, who was murdered on 20th October 1899 on board the “Ethel” when he was returning to New Zealand on one of his journeys to transport supplies for the pearl luggers working out of Broome.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species. When Cattle Egrets go to the local discotheque, they tend to overdo their makeup a bit.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. On a beach in New Zealand, a dolphin came to the rescue of two pygmy sperm whales stranded behind a sand bar. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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