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Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral

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Cape Coral has a remarkable population of Burrowing Owls , cute little stilt-legged beasts we usually associate with the western part of the continent. You can tell which abandoned lots host owls by a small roped off area with the tell-tale t-bars that the owls perch upon. Passing cars elicited no such response.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. It is too early to show.

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. million-year-old early human. Probably not.

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Birdwatching Laguna de los Pozuelos – Trip Report

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It was declared a National Park (Monumento Natural) in 1981 to protect the nesting of up to 25,000 flamingos and many other water-foul and birds that depend on this fragile ecosystem, the Puna. It did not seemed like an abandoned place but there was no-one. Burrowing Owl. src=”[link]. The only towns around.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Burroughs says what he means and you can tell that he really means it. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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Half Hardy

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The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds. Wicked, right?

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The Dry Tortugas: A Must for Birders

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The United States built Fort Jefferson on Garden Key between 1846 to 1875 to protect its interests in the Gulf of Mexico, but was later abandoned without ever being fully completed. Loggerhead Key is a reliable site for the Antillean race of Short-eared Owl.