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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Appropriate appellations should respect the birds, not 19th century naturalists and their friends and family. Audubon accidentally named this species Hemlock Warbler , which isn’t bad.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

In the coming months, Mars Petcare will sponsor family-focused healthy living fairs for pets and people at the following locations: New York City – The Prospect Park YMCA, October 16. The WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition provides the science behind our leading petcare brands. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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This may be before the Fairy-Wrens developed the ability to detect Cuckoo young in the nest, an ability recently described by ornithologists, or this family may be one of the 60% who don’t detect Cuckoo chicks. It is co-branded with the Natural History Museum of London, whose collections are the source of the artwork.

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