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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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Cute looks and adaptability as a cage bird conferring an evolutionary advantage. No photoshop was needed to document this bizarre creature encountered somewhere along the road. Occasionally, it seems these birds can be quite long-lived – a paper documents a recapturing of a ringed female after 10 years. On the ground?

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

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The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds–A Book Review

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Think about it–how do you document the behavior of birds that spend years flying (or swimming) and feeding and, apparently, sleeping above or within the deep sea? Naturalists who love science and want a quick way of reading all the seabird articles in Condor , Marine Biology, and Seabird Conference proceedings.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

And one of the things you do is to study old documents, and you have this old book, this very very old book, that chronicles the life and times of some historic people in some historic period, but you don’t know exactly when it is from or where it was written. Imagine you study history.

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