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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. by Marc Bekoff. Nonetheless, they adjusted their behavior to allow Babyl to remain with the group.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

10,000 Birds

” Buyers, in a world packed and competitive beyond the imaginations of those who set aside these unclaimed and abandoned lands as forest reserves and public grazing lands in the early 1900s, are now everywhere, planet-wide. To quote Hal Herring, in his essay “ Can we make sense of the Malheur mess ?” As Utah State Rep.

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