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What is the State Bird of New Mexico?

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Rattlesnakes are fair game, as are other reptiles, scorpions, frogs, birds, and insects. Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. These ground birds have been clocked going 20 mph, though their coyote predators can go more than twice that.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

Although I adore my own cats, I had not realized what an important role animals can play as life draws to a close. But mean as a rattlesnake,” Barb’s sister said. Hi, I’m Debra Stang , author of Hospice Tails and guest writer for today’s blog. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds.

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California Quail, The California State Bird: Now Forming Coveys

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In addition to these aerial predators, their eggs and young are often taken by squirrels, gray foxes, house cats, coyotes, gopher snakes, rattlesnakes, raccoons, American Crows and Western Scrub-Jays. Let us also not forget the two-legged predator with a shotgun.