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Feral Cats in American Cities

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… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. In Yuma, Arizona, they don’t take no prisoners.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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The Littel Big Year – Week 45: Wrapping up the Bahamas

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After that we visited a small remote site of an abandoned resort that is going back to the jungle quickly, and a water front location for shorebirds and gulls. Now, I have 8 days left, in order to find 9 new bird species, somewhere in the state of Arizona, to total an amazing 1300 birds for the year. The Little Big Year species – 1291.

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