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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

10,000 Birds

And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p. Watcha looking at, human?” Workman Publishing Company, October 2021, 5 x 0.76 “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. An unexpected complexity to the shading?

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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Make sure you look after your pet with insurance

4 The Love Of Animals

According to the RSPCA, in 2008 there was a 57% increase in the number of animals abandoned by their owners in the UK. Sheila Stewart, of Capricom Animal Rescue centre in Mold, United Kingdom, said that she believes that this can be overcome by the animal’s owners taking out pet insurance. The importance of pet insurance.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

10,000 Birds

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. Least Terns resting on an oil-stained beach July 15, 2010 Wellhead is capped.

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