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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). The story of Duncraft is a good example.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. North American warblers, on the other hand, often bear names of, at best, marginal utility. NAMED FOR PLACES.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

These run the range from birds like Barnacle Goose and Little Egret, which are rare but do show up in North America every few years (actually, lately it’s been every year) to birds whose sightings in North America are so few that they’re legendary–Western Reef-Heron and Corn Crake are two examples. This is not unusual.

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I Love eBird and You Should Too!

10,000 Birds

As if eBird, the marvelous citizen science produced database of bird sightings, wasn’t awesome enough, you can now have an eBird profile that is viewable by other eBird users. Part of the prize was a brand new pair of Zeiss Conquests, which I was more than happy to try out this weekend. It’s a simple but amazing idea.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

10,000 Birds

I selected this paper because it is unusually accessible (for example, it does not have formal modeling, genetic analysis, or daunting equations) and tells a fascinating story about shipping tiny birds hundreds of miles between two isolated islands in the remote Pacific Ocean. Biological Conservation 199 (2016): 146-156. It is all business.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

10,000 Birds

For example, researchers fenced in part of the nesting area of Northern Lapwings , thus excluding ground predators from some nests. The multiplication of genera, in the systems of the former that are too artificial, cannot possibly facilitate the study of science; Rather, it will scare the newcomer away or make things worse for him.”

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