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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

10,000 Birds

However, the lockdown forces me to go deeper and deeper into my photo collection, if I want to write anything at all. On a side note, the bird is also kind of ugly, so maybe the chicks never seeing their father has a certain protective function. And that seems to be the only vaguely satisfying thing left to do at the moment.

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Dog Whisperer and Philly Undercover Premiere Jan 7, 2012

4 The Love Of Animals

After Dog Whisperer, Philly Undercover, the new six-part series in which the PSPCA’s undercover police team works to eliminate dogfighting and protect all animals from abuse and neglect, premieres. Officer Wayne Smith takes to the streets of a drug-infested neighborhood to collect intel using a hidden camera and a rescued pit bull as a decoy.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.