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Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage By Corey • March 8, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share It should come as no surprise to readers of 10,000 Birds that I do not love gulls.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law?

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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She has contributed many pieces to 10,000 Birds and writes about her birding adventures on her blog, newbirder.tumblr.com. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern. Now, I don’t want anyone in the blogging audience to be alarmed.

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Portugal Deals with Same Issues Around Dogfighting

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This link is to ANIMAL's blog , written in Portuguese. Plus, the government is demonizing certain breeds of dogs even though they are very much victims. Tags: dog attacks portugal dog fighting. Essentially, it sounds like they are having the same issues as we have in the US regarding dog fights and dog attacks.

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Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence

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I may have to quit bloggingTags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I blame Charlie Sheen.

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

4 The Love Of Animals

Our website makes it easy for anyone with an internet connection to find profiles and pictures of adoptable animals by location, breed, gender, age, size, and color. For example, I can tell “Search Saver” where I live, and what type of breed I am looking for. We have begun blogging and created a Twitter Page along with a Facebook Page.

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