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Bellwoods Brewery: Barn Owl No. 14

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Apples are somewhat more troublesome given their size and firmness, but generally nothing a sturdy cider-press can’t handle. Bellwoods Brewery of Toronto, Ontario didn’t necessarily intend their Barn Owl No. Barn Owl No. An Owl’s Lunch , attributed to 18th-century English painter George William Sartorius.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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of Chicago Press, 2014). Angell’s black-and-white methodology works well for crows, ravens and owls, his chosen subjects, and it also surprisingly well for more colorful birds, even Indian Peafowl. The Barn Owl sweeps down in darkness at midnight, moonlight illuminated his wings and face.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife.

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