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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. Wasted effort from the viewpoint of the tree, and a reason why many of these trees are rather fond of cats. If you happen to live in St. ” Congratulations.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

10,000 Birds

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St.

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The Catbird Seat

10,000 Birds

Lately it’s almost certainly my young son’s cry of “kitty-cat bird!&# Because while everyone who’s taken middle school English Lit knows why it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird, everyone who listened to baseball on the radio knows why it’s a great thing to be in the Catbird seat.

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