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Sometimes you get the bird…

10,000 Birds

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. Danger, danger, danger!

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Petrel Paradise

10,000 Birds

We soon were close to the Mokohinau Islands , one of the many islands in the area that serve as wildlife refuges. One birder from Australia even got his lifer Red-crowned Parakeet ! Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.

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The man who saved species

10,000 Birds

Image by Errol Nye, ( Creative Commons Share-alike ) I’ll talk about each of the programmes in more depth in the future, but both used the technique known as close order management (COM), which worked with critically endangered species at the level of individual rather than population.

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