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Great Horned Owls on camera!

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The family of Great Horned Owls featured on OwlCam.co There are 3 eggs, and high hopes that all will hatch. It all started a few years back when the current owner purchased … Continue reading → The post Great Horned Owls on camera! appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. wildlife'

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The Collared Finchbill

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The Japanese Scops Owl has the same word in its name ( Otus semitorques ), but I could not find an explanation for that either. Fortunately for them (though less so for the cuckoo), in one experiment they ejected 100% of all cuckoo model eggs. The other is the Crested Finchbill.

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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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How much do you know about owls? I’ve been fortunate to encounter many owls in my birding life, sometimes because I’m looking for them, sometimes happily by happenstance. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read. I don’t think so.

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Collective Arts: Stranger than Fiction

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The packaging artwork has changed – last year it was a fluid, thickly-textured portrait of a Eurasian Eagle-Owl ( Bubo bubo ) – but I think the recipe has remained the same. The artwork of this edition is by Jenny Keith – an Edmonton, Alberta-based artist with a penchant for depicting animals and natural curiosities.

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What is Bird Poop?

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Bird poop is, summarized and generalized, the same thing as any other animal group’s poop: the final stage of digestion, the getting rid of the garbage. Here’s the chain of events: an animal eats and the food is being digested. Or picture yourself as a bird fetus within an egg.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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Later, there were magic summers on the island with their children, friends, and friends’ children (and the various animals Wingate was always taking in), and the terrible accident that resulted in Anita’s early death. This very personal story might seem out of place in a bird book.

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

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Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).

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