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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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What’s the Next ABA-Countable Exotic?

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Outside of Florida, there are also growing populations in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Houston. Outside of the parakeets, the colorful Northern Red Bishop ( Euplectes franciscanus ) from Africa is a widespread resident of Los Angeles and Orange County in California with a large breeding population that has been around since the 1970s.

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Siberian Husky Voted Top Dog in Pets-idential Election

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Canine Cabinet Posts Filled by a Melting Pot of Breeds from across the U.S. Filling out the three remaining cabinet posts are: Emmitt Martin, a chocolate Lab from Houston, TX, as Secretary of Play Time; Storm Groff, a German shepherd dog from Blackwood, NJ, as Treasurer of Treats; and.

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Write a Post, Help a Dog!

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Here’s all you need to include in your post: The Write a Post, Help a Dog program is aimed at raising awareness and food for the more than four million dogs that wind up in shelters and breed rescues each year. Ryan Rice at Houston Dog Blog. Want to “meet&# the Pedigree bloggers? Felissa Elfenbein at Two Little Cavaliers.

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Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees–A Field Guide Review

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The maps are fairly complex, showing breeding range, winter range, year-round range, migration routes, times, and directions. Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.