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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Over the past six years, Henry has received almost 50,000 letters from humans and critters. Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools. I’m Here too!”

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. He could not say the same today.

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Splitsville

10,000 Birds

Splits were once a much more subjective determination, based on differences in appearance, vocalizations, habits, and breeding preferences. I continue to hope that history will someday repeat itself with the House Wren group. I have never seen a “Brown-throated ” House Wren near human settlements.

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