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Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior, by John Kricher — a review

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How, to humans, is “behavior” separate from the bird itself? For example, ritualistic displays of aggression and appeasement, of coming to the brink and then backing off, are common in humans and, probably, all animals. Again, both these behaviors seem quite human — or maybe our equivalents seem quite avian.

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Can the Falcons Win the Super Bowl?

10,000 Birds

The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. Considering how humanity treats birds around the world, this is clearly a case of sports imitating life. Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. This year may, of course, be different.

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Identifying the Mystery Bird

10,000 Birds

Spring through summer is baby season, and the human population ventures outside and finds little creatures in their backyard, their garden, their porch, the edge of the trail, the sidewalk, the train platform, etc. Ever rehabbed a Baltimore Oriole ? Belly’s not bruised; skin tone his purplish-red, as is gape. Nearly inaudible.”.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

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In the following year, American telegraph pioneer Samuel Morse encountered such difficulty in his original plan to lay underground telegraph cable between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. We humans tend not to think of utility poles and wires as “beautiful” or “natural” elements of the environment, when we notice them at all.

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Stillwater Artisanal with Oliver Brewing Co.: Tuppence (Feed the Birds)

10,000 Birds

There are some birds looking to be fed on the label of this week’s beer, too, which is an excellent collaboration from Baltimore brewers Stillwater Artisanal and Oliver Brewing Company called Tuppence (Feed the Birds). They’re unquestionably the birds best known for devouring human flesh, at least on a regular basis and in notable quantities.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times). JILLIAN PARRY FRY Baltimore, Feb. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va.,