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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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Instead, the entry asks us to “Please bear with us while this update takes place” A few months ago, I wrote an email to my bank asking them a specific question. If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter. I am only joking! Birds should be free. A worrying trend.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. When you throw the feral Cat in there, not only do they push out the indigenous wild carnivores, but they are hunting animals that are not quite adapted to avoiding them as well as they may be to avoiding other animals.