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What’s in a Name?

10,000 Birds

Call me old fashioned if you like, but I rather like many of these old names, as they put a bit of colour and interest into birding, especially if you bother to investigate who exactly the birds are named after. Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

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Dog Whisperer and Philly Undercover Premiere Jan 7, 2012

4 The Love Of Animals

Once again, Cesar Millan works with dogs and their owners to help dogs suffering from phobias and obsessions! The full-scale investigation began two days earlier. 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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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (2)

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This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. Yet, David, who has much more experience with bustards, isn’t convinced: “In winter, some females develop bristles, too.”.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young.

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