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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see. That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings.

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Grassy Green Space in the Central Valley- Trash Habitat or Prime Real Estate for Oddball Birds?

10,000 Birds

Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. Lesser numbers of other common birds also occur; birds like the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat , Inca Doves , saltators, Groove-billed Anis , and other species.

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On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. Indeed, we call the very rare non-fliers “flightless.”

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Glue Trapped

10,000 Birds

The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. See Safe Rodent Control. I could laugh about it because the mole was fine.”. Glue traps!

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Calgary Zoo in Big Trouble

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For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away.

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Mammals of Madagascar (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Strictly speaking, Mammals of Madagascar is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. Still, there should be no problem with larger species that allow for longer observation time (e.g.

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

10,000 Birds

Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. But overall, it’s not common if you exclude bird and bats, the two main flying vertebrate groups. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.

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