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Birds and Bling

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As for nice clothing … right! Moral: they’re everywhere. “I Sharron Montgomery went through the same thing with a badly-behaved educational Bald Eagle named Booker T. Birds American Crow Bald Eagle brown-headed cowbird great-horned owls Red-tailed Hawk sandhill crane wildlife rehabilitators'

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending. Yes, that’s right – she adds an epilogue. She includes a good history of a time, culture, and part of the world not well known, at least not to norteamericanos.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. Wicked, right?

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Battle Creek Cellars: Unconditional Pinot Noir (2017)

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Next Thursday is the American Thanksgiving holiday – which means it’s time to trot out that old legend concerning Benjamin Franklin’s opinions on two iconic American birds: The Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) and the Bald Eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ). He is a Bird of bad moral Character.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. But I am grumbling a little bit about it.

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