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The Queen

10,000 Birds

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. When she didn’t fly off, he stopped his car and approached her.

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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

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Bringing Your Pet to Disneyland

4 The Love Of Animals

That’s right! Dogs, cats, birds (given there is no avian bird flu alert), rabbits and non-venomous reptiles are allowed. Other options outside the Disneyland Resort are Animals Friends Pet Hotel and Animal Inns of America. Well, why not take your furry pals with you? At Disneyland, you can!

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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The indistinguishable Empidonax Flycatchers

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Another three species migrate down Mexico’s Gulf coast to Central America, to join the two resident species of Central America and southeastern Mexico. All right, I’ll admit that I do have a bit of fondness for our resident empid species. I have seen them all… or at least, I think I have.