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How To Select Bird Seed Mixes

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Though some species are shedding breeding plumage and taking on more somber winter colors, they’re still often cute as button. As more companies carry bird seed and wild bird stores add blends, how can you tell what’s the best for you when attracting birds like the above Red-breasted Nuthatch ? Why is that?

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

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As an independent illustrator, he regularly contributed art to Ford Times , a “lifestyle” magazine published by the Ford Motor Company. Although Ford Times was a company magazine, distributed free to Ford customers, it had a wide circulation, claiming up to 8 million subscribers, and published notable writers and artists.

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W. V. Quine (1908-2000) on Altruism

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Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Reidel Publishing Company, 1978], 37-45, at 44-5 [italics in original]) One thinks also of unborn generations.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

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If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species. The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). So, basically, the two species do exactly the same things. eBird states that there are nearly 50 of them.

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From Today's New York Times

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What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. 21, 2008 To the Editor: The biggest beef recall ever is something that would be expected as our food industry becomes more consolidated into larger and larger processing companies.