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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Purebred or mixed breed? I strongly encourage people to adopt pound and shelter animals. Try to find out what breeds are in your dogs background to help you better understand your dog’s behavior. About Dr. Tim: Dr. Tim Hunt is a licensed veterinarian in both Michigan and Alaska. Learn more at www.DrTims.com.

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

Finally my colleague Doty worked her magic in Michigan, and we let him go there. Their population is in serious decline, so their breeding colonies are monitored by biologists. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. That was 9 years ago.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. It is the vision that counts!(To

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

10,000 Birds

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage.

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