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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” But maybe that is actually a good thing. meters instead of 0.7 End of political rant).

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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If the crows can distinguish between UCA and HCA, they should treat UCA related events with caution, but be more indifferent to events caused by a HCA, unless of course the HCA is a cat. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food.

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“New York’s Kindest” includes Rock & Rawhide!

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“Working with Animal Care and Control has been a fantastic experience for us. As the only organization in New York City whose doors are open to any animal in need, AC&C rescues thousands of New York’s homeless, neglected, abused and abandoned animals each year. They are New York’s Kindest.” About Animal Care & Control of NYC.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. Every now and then you see an Eagle and a Loon interact a bit. More alarm calling. Then one day they are gone.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

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Fostering is a wonderful experience. A pet needs time to decompress, to learn trust, to “get over” the shelter experience. If appropriate, the pet would also be part of adoption events where the general public can visit the pet. A certain breed, age, sex, temperament, that you think will fit into your home.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Hard to imagine nowadays, this majestic mountain setting was a major communist guerilla stronghold in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and the region is scarred by the events and the memories of them. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase.

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