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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. In the 1950s the species was unofficially regarded as extinct by most biologists, a small part lost in the general tumble and disarray of the entire ecosystem they’d inhabited. You couldn’t see it. But this is real life.

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Owls, the debait

10,000 Birds

Inspire me to try a little harder to get that composition just right, to get that jaw-dropping moment. She has clearly decided that for her baiting is not away to get a photo, and if one does get a photo that way then the ethical thing to do is to state that, much as one should do with captive animals.

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