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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. If the experience of handing over that box can be transformative instead of alienating or shaming, there’s a possibility of change. One typical, blue-sky, L.A.

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The Hummingbird that Answered My Heart’s Calling by Noelle M. Meade-Izzi

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Meade-Izzi’s discoveries — that hummingbirds are tiny, and cute, and part of a remarkable food web that demonstrates the interconnectedness of all living things, that they can inspire a human to follow her instincts and work on contentment in her own life — are those of a nature novice, albeit a wildly enthusiastic one.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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We are always content bird-watching around Broome anyway! Unfortunately, this morph is the dominant one at Fuzhou NFP”) that somehow survived the review process, possibly because the reviewer has had similar experiences. This year we were fortunate to observe birds in Victoria at the start of the year before all of the lockdowns.

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