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November is. Awareness Month

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Having a biological child isn't supporting an exploitation industry and at odds with the goal of the cessation of animal use the way buying from a breeder or pet store is. And the production of her insulin (Vetsulin) involved the use of animal products (from pigs). At least she eats vegan food, I tell myself.

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The Storks of Africa

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It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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After meeting the woman of his dreams, he moved to Austria where he now has the coolest job in the world making awesome toys for birders ( Swarovski Optik product manager ). Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). And it also comes as a video and yet another video. And now for something completely different.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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I am delighted to say that despite her initial reluctance to embrace eBird, Clare was the most productive beat this month, responsible for nearly all of the new stuff. However, my personal favourite for the third month running is Dragan (cope with that), who continues to share his sightings as he goes along. Imagine that, Mike!

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