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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. Have you had rehab experiences with eagles? photo by John Huba. Was there a role model for Mars?

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

10,000 Birds

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The new rankings will be used in a major conservation initiative called the Edge of Existence program at the London Zoo. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of birds flying by out there are going the other way. All I see are their buts.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test.

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