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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. Previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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My research in the Congo supports this idea. I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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The New Jersey Bird Records Committee (NJBRC) documents 465 species of natural origin. Birds of New Jersey , written by Joan Walsh, Vince Elia, Rich Kane, and Thomas Halliwell, published by New Jersey Audubon Society, was a landmark volume; 704-pages long, it presented results of the 1993-1997 New Jersey Breeding Bird Atlas.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.