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Heart U Back

4 The Love Of Animals

I got a sample of the Heart U Back friendship bracelet , and it is my new favorite thing to wear. Heart U Back also supports animal protection agencies on a global level, including Canada (OSPCA and BCSPCA), Australia (RSPCA), and the UK (RSPCA). Their mission is one that we can get behind too!

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Noxious: Montana’s Battle With Spotted Knapweed, and What Birders Can Do

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Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships. Since then, it has been pulled and plucked, sprayed and dusted, mowed and set on fire. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The following decades continued the great expansion, and it was recorded breeding in Canada in 1962 and Chile by 1970. The sheer number of species that have been shuffled around on our big earth is impressive, though we will be dealing with the smaller sample size of invasive avians and other invasives that effect avians.

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Birding in a Hellmouth

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There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose.

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Bird Science and Evolution: 2013 Year In Review

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But I’ve compiled a sampling of this year’s news and events for your edification. … The dinosaur specimen in question was found in deposits west of the city of Grande Prairie in west-central Alberta, Canada. …” There is, as I said, much much more than this but this is a reasonable sampling. .

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics. .”

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