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Young Thrushes

10,000 Birds

Admittedly this has never crossed my mind as being remotely interesting, young birds are generally awkward things, not yet fitting into the sleek and streamlined expectation of the dictionary definition of “bird” Furthermore, thrushes are often underappreciated creatures on their own. Wise creatures.

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My Favorite Mexican Birdsongs

10,000 Birds

Wood-Wrens, which like to live close to the ground in deep brush, definitely follow this rule; they are not at all colorful, but their song sure does ring. Slate-throated Redstart : This lovely little bird is our most common resident (breeding) warbler, and in certain places you will hear it EVERYWHERE. The site is much-degraded now.)

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Sneeze Prone? Top 5 Dogs for Allergy Suffers

4 The Love Of Animals

That said, dander can be found on all breeds, long-haired and short haired ones too. And you can definitely invest in an excellent vacuum cleaner to remove dander and hair from the carpet. Once in the air or on surfaces, it can even take several years for the effects of a deceased pet’s dander to fully diminish.

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Sniping: The Final Frontier?

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Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. The first snipe I ever saw was on Tobago, a definite Wilson’s Snipe.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both McWillam and Hammer express mixed emotions about Lendrum–they abhor his actions but admire his talents–they stress his climbing abilities but he’s obviously also skilled at finding the nests–and his bonhomie fabrications, even the most ridiculous lie is given repeatedly and confidently.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There are 160 to 200 species of marine birds here, depending on your definition of “marine bird” (Fox defines it as “species traditionally considered coastal,” including birds like Sandhill Cranes with the more traditional tubenoses, gulls, and ducks).

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