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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. However, more and more news stories are popping up this year of communities cracking down on bird feeding. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration. Let’s move to the birds). Like my mother, the Chinese Nuthatch habitually hoards food (HBW). (Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there. Third note: no more notes.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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On the way, he told me a story of one of the senior (retired) archaeologists in the department sneaking into another archaeologist’s office to read a manuscript he had been hoarding. Many birds have no sense of smell, many vultures do (helps to find dead things). So, we want to build lots of them.

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