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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Mute Swan – Cygnus olor.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.).

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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. And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow.

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Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

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If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. I’m just beginning to use a feeder and am surprised by how quickly the House Sparrows seem to decimate it.

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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. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Burroughs says what he means and you can tell that he really means it.

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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. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.