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Birds at the Bell

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Sometimes the birds are used as a prop in a mammal exhibit. Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Bell incorporated the dioramas, or at least many of them, into a fantastic floor of natural history museumology. The Loon diorama demonstrates biparental care in a bird.

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Loner, Drifter: More on the Hoary Bat

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I never knew, until my ill-fated encounter , that these are among the most birdie of the North American flying mammals. They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. I cannot get the Hoary Bat out of my head. Hoary Bats roost in trees, not caves.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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.'” Tim Low (in “How Song Began”) gives a colorful description of Long-billed Corellas , stating that they “have drooping bills like witches’ noses” and explaining that “Their ‘noses’ are long because, like many mammals, they grub up juicy roots – or used to.” I think this is a juvenile Grey Fantail.

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MIA

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Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons. The next day the pair was still in the lake, but egg was still there which gave me some hope that the nest hadn’t been abandoned. Bonus mammal image, a summer Arctic Hare.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

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Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. The NOOA recorded approximately 70 marine mammal strandings each year prior to 2010. The NOOA recorded approximately 70 marine mammal strandings each year prior to 2010.

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Is Dolphin Therapy Cruel to Dolphins?

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ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.

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Not Exactly Flying Squirrels

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The bird feeder arms race demands incessant innovation because of the utter fearlessness and abandon driving squirrels to plunder feeders. Entire industries are built around preventing squirrels from completely devouring provisions intended for birds.

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