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My Favorite Release

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We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. This is where they got their name. As the earliest evidence of M.

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

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” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. It is the vision that counts!(To

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