4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Get your tailgating gear together, place your bets, and tune in to Big Cat Week on Nat Geo WILD to find out the answer to that question! During the 4th annual Big Cat Week viewers will be delighted and amazed by nature’s Biggest and Baddest Cats! Nat Geo WILD’s Man v. 29, at 9 pm et/pt. 29, at 9 pm et/pt. Man, or cheetah?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Then there is the fact that its plumage (the original to the copy-cat New World quails) can easily rival many a spring’s warbler, and there you have it: just look up “marvelous” on wikipedia and the first thing you see is a full-sized image of a Chukar grinning at you. Until I yell that it should not here roam!

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Kazakhstan Tennessee North America Sparrows 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2015

This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. The striking Snail Kite? Florida went with the Northern Mockingbird , found in all lower 48 states. Okay, it’s true, Northern Mockingbirds are fascinating birds. Think again!

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Such bills have been introduced in the past by elected officials in Rhode Island, Colorado, and Tennessee, and the first-ever bill for a statewide registry in California was today announced by its sponsor, State Senator Dean Florez. While no state has passed a bill to date, a proposal in Tennessee is currently pending.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2017

For lack of another legitimate candidate, it probably is but since it vocalizes only a few times in the distance, hasn’t been seen, hasn’t given the Great Jacamar’s cat-like call, and is a very rare species in Costa Rica, I just can’t make myself count it.

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Costa Rica Birds Owls Tennessee 139

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# We fought them back in Tennessee; there’s a two-year stay on their proposal. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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