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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?) The same goes for the badger, an animal that has become much more numerous and widespread in Britain in the last 50 years.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2014)

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Like the fabled honey badger, grackles don’t care. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. We weary winter warriors need some serious respite. Shouldn’t someone be sending St. Bernards with brandy barrels on their collars to help us get through this?

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To Spotlight or not to Spotlight?

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It was the perfect experience, the guide had astonishing eyes and found things we would have passed over if we had been alone. Vipers dominated, as well as some smaller snakes, but we also found a Sunda Stink-badger and a sleeping Hooded Pitta. It’s hard to know how to predict how a spotlighting experience is going to go.

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

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We started out as a team with enthusiasm and knowledge, but little experience in book-making. reduce traffic casualties amongst Badgers , get the White-tailed Eagle back as a breeding bird, increase the number of protected plant species etc.). As for the books, that is a different matter. so far you have focussed on European nature.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. That was one of his cats.