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The Pleasures of Collective Nouns and Murder — a Review

10,000 Birds

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. A final thought: whether you think collective nouns are fascinating or idiotic , the more fundamental question is, why do they exist at all or, rather, how did they come to be?

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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Birds at the Bell

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Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Bell collection of birds is impressive. Collection of Blue Birds. The Bell has always offered the same exact explanation for the Kite’s range getting so small, and I never quite believed it. The Mississippi Kite.

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There goes the neighborhood

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I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. Although, oddly enough, my garden is currently hosting a MacGillivray’s Warbler on its way north.

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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

Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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Smart and Getting Smarter

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When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”

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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

10,000 Birds

Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. There’s enough scientific data collected already ( eBird illustrated checklist ), it is not as if we really need more. And most of my local patches, the best ones – at least, are not accessible by car any more.

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