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A Fish From the Blue

10,000 Birds

Melissa accompanied Danielle into the bear den for moral support, and partway into the cleaning session heard a thud. Uh …” said Danielle, pointing at a large fish lying in a corner of the bear den. “Uh Uh …” said Danielle, pointing at a large fish lying in a corner of the bear den. What was that?” asked Danielle.

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Birds and Bling

10,000 Birds

asked Marge Gibson, when I asked a group of bird rehabbers about their bling experiences. that although her cockatiel is obsessed with her silver feather earrings, the only wild bird ever interested in them was a Brown-headed Cowbird. “My Moral: they’re everywhere. “I Raccoons are worse than birds,” said Gay Frazee.

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What is the National Bird of the United States?

10,000 Birds

The Bald Eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. It was chosen as the national bird by dint of its inclusion in the National Seal of the United States, which happened by an act of the Continental Congress on 20 June 1782. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). This is also present in birds & mammals, however it is not fully present in fish & amphibians. So, I understand that not everyone is a "snake person."

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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). ” So, while the first moral seems to be quite acceptable by today’s standards, the second one is surprisingly non-pc. Third note: no more notes. but without the bitter taste of losing a race.

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How to Bust a BBS

10,000 Birds

a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. Now that the data is being entered into eBird regularly even this extremely local look at breeding birds will have some value beyond sitting in a folder on a professor’s desktop. That and the moral reprehensiveness of slavery.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans.