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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Poor researchers Nicola Coumi and Rob Slotow failed to find anything particularly interesting about vigilance in Bronze Mannikin groups. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952. ” I wish I had this kind of optimism. They probably did not even have Twitter then.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

10,000 Birds

The Dry Tortugas National Park is located some 70 miles off of Key West in a small group of keys that makes up the farthest points included in the state of Florida, so it was no surprise that we had a four hour boat ride ahead of us before landing in the park. Banding is best done in teams split into three, potentially four groups.

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Black Bear

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And I didn’t properly research the ramifications of going to VLS, because if I had, I wouldn’t have been so shocked when I heard about my inevitable debt and low-paying job prospects. He was bleeding from several bullet wounds, and visibly in excruciating pain. On a brisk November morning, I decided to leave law school.

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