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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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But marrying a widow and thus getting access to scientific information was not the only remarkable event in his life. Even the review has some interesting information – for example, a major predator of eagle nests is the Brown Bear. If (like me) you want to feel bad about it, you may want to read the review of the book here.

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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

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A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. State law on the issue is murky.

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Xena

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Lisa takes her to schools, fairs, and events, and together they show people why they should respect and admire the wildlife who live around them. Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The refuge offers opportunities for hiking and biking trails, canoeing and kayaking on Swan Lake, bank fishing, and family friendly programs and events.” The Louisiana black bear’s threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act. 31 to provide inviolate sanctuary for migratory birds.

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Birding in the Dark

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It has come to my attention recently, through the analysis of a chain of peculiar events, that Corey Finger is not a real person. You’ll have to take my word for it, and it may come very unexpectedly, but for reasons beyond human comprehension this bird is called a “ Green Woodpecker” . Boy, do I have news for you.

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R. G. Frey on Egoism and Utilitarianism

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For, at least as both are usually construed, the only major difference between ethical egoism and act-utilitarianism is that the egoist is concerned with maximizing utility in his own case, so that only consequences which affect him bear upon the rightness and wrongness of his acts.

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