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Why Do I Keep a Neighborhood Bird List?

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” my brother asked on a hot and muggy afternoon in North Florida. I keep year and life lists on eBird, which helps scientists collect and analyze movement and population trends, but most of my daily lists originate in areas I tread on a weekly or even daily basis. “Why do you always keep a list?”

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Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

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It is also a good description of the birding in southernmost Florida. Sure, Miami and the Florida Keys do not boast any endemics ( ‘Cape Sable’ Seaside Sparrow is close) at the species level. Few birders realize how many warblers actually do winter in southernmost Florida — even long time birders within the state.

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The Sunda Teals of Jakarta

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However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Sunda Teals, showing a feeding behaviour called “collective suicide” while a Cave Swiftlet looks on.

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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

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Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area. The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S.

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Collective Arts Brewing: Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach

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And just to be clear, we’re talking about the human snowbirds here. Even in this age of hesitant travel, there are hordes of winter-weary northerners heading south on this annual midwinter migration to hotspots like Florida, the desert Southwest, and the Caribbean. Collective Arts Brewing: Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach.

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Pet Paradise Resort to donate ALL pet hair clippings

4 The Love Of Animals

Did you know that pet hair clippings (and human hair too) can be used to help clean up oil? May 5th, 2010) Pet Paradise Resort , an upscale pet boarding, daycare and grooming resort, will start collecting and donating pet hair clippings from all 13 of their resort locations to help with the oil spill cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

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The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. This is what got me, the incongruity.

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