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Potential Efficiency Improvements

10,000 Birds

Supporting local conservation organizations and participating in citizen science initiatives allows us to contribute to the protection of Shanghai’s bird species and their habitats. But anyway, my main point of contention is the style, not the facts. So, I tried again: “This sounds a bit too positive to me.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

the development of field-based ornithological research in Europe and Great Britain; a quick step back through the history to look at bird protection, conservation, and our precarious future, with a focus on Birkhead’s long-term (50 years!) Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales.

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Southern Lapwing. Chicks and Spurs

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Anything posing a risk to their nests or young will be met by swift action with parent birds dive-bombing any potential threat and raising such a noise as to make the predator choose an easier option. Then I saw the reason for their protective behaviour. The road took me past the vultures which flew as I approached.

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Yogi Bear Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

Yogi Bear features everyone’s favorite talking bear Yogi (Dan Aykroyd) and his adorable sidekick Boo Boo (Justin Timberlake) as they raise havoc with their hair-brained schemes in Jellystone Park much to the chagrin of Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh). After you enter our giveaway, be sure to click the widget above for fun content!

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Pied Oystercatcher nesting

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There are sixteen pairs of Pied Oystercatchers and they have varying success at raising young birds. The main problem appears to be feral cats, but there is also predation from birds of prey and the parent Pied Oystercatchers do their utmost to protect their young. The last time they successfully raised a chick was in 2012.

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New Blood Sport Involves.Canaries?

Critter News

From the WTF files.and reported by the Associated Content news site. Channel 8 News raised more than a few eyebrows when it reported on a Shelton canary fighting ring that caused 150 birds to be placed into protective custody and thrust 19 suspects with their first and last names into the public eye.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

You can check the table of contents, or browse the “gallery of thumbnail images” in the Introduction (see image above) or use either of the two indexes—a Short Index on the inside back cover flap and a traditional Index of popular and scientific names. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

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