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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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No photoshop was needed to document this bizarre creature encountered somewhere along the road. Occasionally, it seems these birds can be quite long-lived – a paper documents a recapturing of a ringed female after 10 years. Still, a small number compared to the estimated 26 billion chickens in the world. On the ground?

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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

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This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. I am attaching a news article below, but SeaQuest has locations across the country and documented issues at all of them. They were cowering together under a bright light for all the passersby to balk at.

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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

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If Wood Thrush hasn’t been documented as Cane Toad prey, it can now be added to the list. He mentioned how, growing up, locals talked about losing small chickens to those frogs but never to toads. Smaller frogs and toads, mice, bugs, worms, dog food, and carrion, you name it. Birds too, if they can catch them.

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Owls, the debait

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And as Ron Dudley shows, it goes beyond live mice, as he documented a whole chicken being left out by someone to attract raptors. At least a chicken would last awhile as a feeder. If they are doing it solely to capture the photo it isn’t aid it is exploitation.

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How to Bird the Colibri Cafe at Cinchona, Costa Rica

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Nor are there any birding authorities requiring folks to identify, count and document the nuthatches, titmice and Downy Woodpeckers that come to their backyard feeders. “Pinto” is rice and beans and comes with your choice of eggs, breaded Tilapia, chicken or other options.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Habitat loss, as documented by hieroglyphs. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . Anyway, this points to an interesting fact – as recently as about 4,500 years ago, it was found in the Egyptian Nile Delta. Scientists use ostrich cells to create masks that glow when they detect COVID-19.

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Florida Walking Around Birds

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There are Double-crested Comorants , of course, but it’s not Florida unless you have Anhingas bellied up to the shoreline drying their wings like absurdly proportioned chickens. And since that performance is not enough, they take to the skies and kettle with the flocks of migrating Turkey Vultures constantly passing overhead.

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