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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

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Few things are more frightening to contemplate than an ambush predator that, by nature, strikes without warning using its own deadly killing tools with efficient, lethal expertise. Spectacled Owl. Another predator, this one only comes out at night and as with most owls, is also naturally sort of spooky. Pygmy-Owls.

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

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Bats just love to fly into human hair!” s and “Kill me now!”s. Do you associate the sound of a bell with an armed ninja who wants to kill you? If you see an owl,” wrote Mikal Deese, “someone in your family is going to die. That’s why I can’t take owls to a lot of my education programs out here in New Mexico.”.

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Superheroes and the Birds

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You see, everyone knows the bats, wolverines, spiders and cats get their turn as well known superheroes, but what about the birds? 9: Swift What would happen if instead of sending the Joker and Lex Luthor off to jail each time Superman and Batman caught them, instead they just killed them? This is not comic heroism as you remember it.

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Glue Trapped

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Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Here’s why. The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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Owls are not included, though they sometimes are in ‘raptor’ guides. Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. There are also depictions of birds in habitat, like the Bat Falcon in the rain forest, above, and some close-ups of heads or tails.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. It was a fresh kill, and though it might take hours, the observers knew that eventually the leopard was going to come back for his breakfast. And, there were birds.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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There are a number of potential reasons for this, the most likely by far being that Pat has been batting for both teams for a couple of weeks. Stygian Owl – Asio stygius. Bare-shanked Screech-Owl – Megascops clarkii. Eurasian Scops-Owl – Otus scops. Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl – Bubo lacteus.

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