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The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You!

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They feed from grain storage and spillage areas, livestock yards, and bird feeders. To access the entire week’s worth of content just click here. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life. They are traditionally pastoral people, but have from necessity accepted agriculture, fishing and crocodile hunting as means of survival.

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Keep Your Eyes on the Trail: Mad Cow Edition

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This bubble of contentment must have dulled my typically sharp urban wariness, because I thought nothing of the teenager traveling up the path with an untethered cow. Well, we Bronx boys are naturally suspcious of livestock, for reasons I still don’t understand. Who worries about a cow, right?

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