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Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence

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I may have to quit blogging… Tags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Leucistic Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

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Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Tags: diving ducks , ducks , leucism , leucistic • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history. Wicked, right?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Wicked, right?

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right?

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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However, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront is one of those birds that is simply enigmatic and rare and recently discovered, with many aspects of its life history unknown to humanity. … Tags: brazil • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? See who won the contest here! Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

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.’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

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