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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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And whether the return is a permanent one or not remains to be seen as those factors sealing my fate as a regular contributor are still binding me to this day. Now, the names different languages give to birds are peculiar indeed, but that is a subject very specific to those who seek out and identify birds. No birds required.

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. What birds need is their own SWAT team. Instead of Special Weapons and Tactics, think: Sealed With A Trap. Sealed With A Trap. Sealed With A Trap. You call the SWAT team.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ). The first attempt in hunting was made by the male hornbill which was seen snapping at a passing swiftlet, but was unsuccessful.

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. This lake is close to the cave. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.

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People of a Feather

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But global climate change is by no means the only way that humans can throw a wrench into those gears. During the winter the birds are dependent on small fissures in the sea ice kept open by the currents of the bay. I hadn’t really thought about that much until, the other night, a friend and I went to see People of a Feather.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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The birds that wear tuxedos and star in major motion pictures. People call them “flightless birds&# but they do in fact fly; They just do it underwater. The evolution of the living penguins is one of the best known cases among birds, or even vertebrates in general, mainly through the study of DNA, bio-geography, and anatomy.

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Survival of the Flexible

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It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour.

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