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Owling in Trinidad & Tobago

10,000 Birds

Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Years later, a small group of us ventured into some forest adjoining abandoned cocoa estates in central Trinidad searching for a view of this bird.

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Streaks, Variegations, and Pirates

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The birds I’m referring to in this post are all flycatchers that occupy woody, forest habitat; but they are very infrequently in the same place at the same time. By constant harassment, egg ejection, and in some cases hatchling removal, the original owners abandon ship and the Piratic Flycatchers move in.

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There goes the neighborhood

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I am on a chat for Mexican birders, and one of their latest running jokes has to do with a Clay-colored Thrush (all too common on Mexico’s eastern coast) which, during our quarantine, has been dubbed “Wilson” by one of our Veracruz birders, in a reference to Tom Hanks’ volleyball “friend” in Castaway.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2022

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The lyrics are rather clever, with references to XTC (“ Making plans for Nigel “) and Jean-Paul Satre (“ Hell is other people “). Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. The male at work.

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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. As his boss, the leader of the station, Colleen Shepherd, says, “He does so like his obtuse angles.”.

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Common Mergansers or Goosanders Frolicking on Clear Creek

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After doing all this pretty much by themselves, the females abandon the young before they can fly, usually 30 to 50 days after they hatch. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a. They are able to fly at 60 to 75 days old and do just fine without mom.

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The Lady with 700 Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

says Lynea Lattanzio, referring to her mother’s forbiddance of felines in the house. Boxes of abandoned kittens, emergency CPR, meds for sick strays — each day brings a new set of challenges to her refuge on 12 acres in central California. .&# Now she has more than 700. “I bet she’s sorry now!&#

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