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Butcher Birds, The Loggerhead Shrike

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Childhood memories flooded back in, and I began my search for the poor victims of this bird, so lovingly nicknamed “The Butcher Bird” Nothing was found, not a grasshopper, lizard, nothing. Each nesting pair will have 4-8 eggs, and there is some reference to location being a factor on that quantity.

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Crime Gang Dealing in Rhino Horn and Elephant Ivory

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Also referred to as “The Butcher of Matabeleland”, he is the architect of Zimbabwe’s terrifying state security apparatus, creator of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Office (CIO) - and rumored to be next in line for president after Mugabe.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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References. Butcher, A. In a world where environmental conservation is increasingly under threat, it is becoming clear that we need to share the importance of the existence of species and their habitats. Berlanga, H., Kennedy, T. Arizmendi, C. Beardmore, P. Blancher, G. Couturier, A. Demarest, W. Gustafson, E. Iñigo-Elias, E.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Since the order went into effect, Claire Butcher continued to feed the ducks in the park and was allegedly observed bringing entire shopping carts filled with food. Do neighbors refer to you as bird species + Lady or Guy? The Eagle Lady has also died and now the town bans the feeding of eagles and other birds. Grackle Guy?

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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Even though this referred to a period after the supposed “scavenging” phase, it lent support to the idea of a stepwise evolution of the ability to hunt. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Herzog, unsurprisingly, uses “it” to refer to animals, eats and wears them, and “[does] not feel particularly guilty about it” (P.S., And by the way, he debunks the idea of dogs and unconditional love, as well as the idea that pet owners are less lonely than people who don’t own pets. The campaign to moralize meat has largely been a failure.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

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(Note: this post refers to a trip I took a long time ago, in 2015. Still, after I used modern software to turn the originally black-and-white photos into colored ones, some of them may still be worth looking at). Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there.

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