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You Never Know What You’ll Find in Kansas

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The sun was setting fast as my mom and I left Council Grove, Kansas, after a delicious steak dinner and a three hour expedition across the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. We loved the undulating green of the Kansas Flint Hills, and the positive endorphins of the hike pumped through our veins. There was a lake here?

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The Blood Pheasant

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To their surprise, they found a positive correlation between the presence of blood pheasants and livestock in the breeding season, which they then sort of explained away by citing “similar habitat preferences” Blood Pheasants are monogamous, and they seem to have some sort of work-sharing arrangement. This song mentions R.E.M.,

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Getting a Kitten from Kansas

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It's a two-week old kitten from Kansas. From discussions with people who buy from breeders, I understand the reasoning behind getting a purebred dog when it comes to the hunting or working breeds. The best mousers are not of any particular breed. In February she had to put one down because of illness.

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Hilty’s Birds of Colombia field guide review

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Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Also, the distributions of subspecies breeding in the region are clearly mapped. Over 2000 full-colour distribution maps for all regularly occurring species are seamlessly blended next to bird illustrations.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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thesis on the “Social Behavior and Cooperative Breeding of Kalij Pheasants” in a place with much nicer sanitary facilities than where I saw the bird (in rural Fujian). A bit surprisingly (at least to me), the Kalij Pheasant has been introduced and established as a gamebird in Hawaii. Examples: California. Connecticut. New Jersey.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America & Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America: A Field Guide Review

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and plumage terms such as “breeding” and “nonbreeding” have been replaced with “spring/summer” and “fall/winter.” ” The change jumps out at you in the Gulls, Terns, Hawks, and Shorebirds sections, where identification of different plumages can be particularly challenging.