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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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.” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. Soon calls about injured birds poured in from animal hospitals, the police and fire departments, and various government agencies.