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Some Ingenuity Can Go a Long Way

10,000 Birds

This is similar to the fact that all birds, even first time breeders within a species build identical nests. It may take just being at the right place at the right time. In general, fish will swim to investigate anything that falls on the water hoping the object might be prey. At least this is how it might have started.

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Thoroughbred Dealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty

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Yeah, right. Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. He didn't know how his horses were being treated on his own farm? Come on, that's a Michael Vick defense that didn't work with him either. And he didn't know?

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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He has smartly expanded on his article, giving us more about Lendrum’s boyhood and history with conservationists in southern Africa; falcon hunting and racing in the Middle East; the life of Detective Andy McWilliam, the British wildlife officer who investigated Lendrum; and a brief history of oology, the obsessive hobby of egg collecting.

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Big Day Birding in Costa Rica- Strategies and Constraints

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We have to figure out when the highest numbers of migrants coincide with resident breeders to increase the probabilities of breaking the previous record, or to at least hit your Big Day birding goal. However, it also has to give a reasonable chance at identifying all of those birds and that means enough time in the right spots.