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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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The Birds of Washington, DC

10,000 Birds

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History boasts an entire collection of skins of birds native to the DC area, from large Bald Eagles to tiny Eastern Screech Owls. In the National Gallery of Art an entire exhibit features animals in Japanese art, including a plethora of kimonos decorated with birds the color of jewels.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

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It is also quite good at mimicry, imitating species such as the Crested Serpent-eagle, the Javan Cuckoo-shrike and the Orange-bellied Leafbird. Does that mean that families in Florida should on average be larger than in Colorado? Ok, I made that up.

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A bald eagle egg has hatched in Florida, a second is expected to hatch soon

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Florida, United States of America: Bald Eagle at the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center photographed by NASA's Ben Smegelsky.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

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Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone.

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Pahokee Opens for Project Treadstone

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It's a city in Florida on our largest lake, Lake Okeechobee. A branch of Palm Beach County's Animal Care & Control that has been closed for a long, long time and has reopened. This time it's Little Black: Stay tuned also for photos of the eagle's nest down the block that has a baby! If you click on this map , you'll see.