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The return of the Old Man

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Nesting is now confined to Morocco, irregularly in Boghari in Algeria and in Birecik, Turkey.” (The Sadly, they no longer breed in Algeria, while in Turkey no free-flying birds remain. (In On a visit in October 2022, I found ibises feeding with cattle in scruffy roadside paddocks adjacent to the marismas ( photographs below ).

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So

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Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. Toney Union, N.J., Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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Africa’s endangered species

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More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. 07 Jan 2018. 06 Jan 2018.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.

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