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Common Ringed Plover

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Very occasionally though, one might stray down the eastern seaboard of the USA, but for the most part, those that breed in arctic Canada migrate towards Europe and swell numbers there during the winter. The concrete ramp collects seaweed as the tide pushes back and forth. The seaweed, in its turn attracts insects and thus birds.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays. They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program.

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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

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If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace.

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Confounding the Starving Snowy Owl Irruption Theory

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Irruptions of Snowy Owls in 2011 and again in 2013 found these Arctic birds wintering well south of their usual range , in some cases straying down to Bermuda and even Hawaii. (I The data, collected from more than 500 owls over 18 years, appears to contradict the theory that southern-wandering Snowies are struggling to stay alive.

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Figures released by the National Veterinary Authority, Direção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, show that in the Lisbon area alone, a total of 5,629 stray cats and dogs were caught last year, up from the 4,442 caught in 2010.

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Birding at the Tip of Florida: A Bit of Everything

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Nonetheless, by straddling the border between the birds from the south and those from the north (and receiving a great deal of western birds in winter as well), Miami-Dade and Monroe collectively have one of the highest county lists east of the Mississippi River. Most records of northern and western vagrants occur in the winter months.

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The beautiful nests of the Hooded Oriole

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The young male always brought a few different types of berries from the area, I think it had to do with ease of collection. The female had a habit of doing a quick clean up, each time before she flew away, grabbing a dropping, or stray nest part on her way out. The female, when landing on the nest, fed one baby, and flew away.

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