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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. The conference was organized by excellent J.N. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing' Acknowledgements.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Nestlings weren’t taken until their down had been replaced by feathers. And grow they did.

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