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PSA

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The mother only returns once maybe twice a day to feed and some species of rabbits like the eastern Cottontail have their babies in the open rather than burrows. 3) Rabbits have one of the highest caloric milks among mammals so cows milk isn’t going to cut it. I recommend Fox Valley. I recommend Fox Valley.

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Andean Condors On The News

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It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers. The species is being re-introduced in Colombia and Ecuador where the condors are either locally extinct or persist in very low numbers. Photo: Alexander More.

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The Problem with Eagles

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So last night, for reasons that seemed good to me at the time, I decided to watch the pilot of the new Kurtzman/Orci show Sleepy Hollow (Mondays, 9/8 Central on Fox.) in the US, they even know species names: definitely Bald Eagle and probably Golden Eagle too because Golden Eagle is not that hard. People have heard of eagles.

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE will feature a team of free-divers and conservationists putting their safety on the line to separate myth from reality and dispel negative myths about sharks while raising public awareness about shark species which are being driven to extinction. each year than are killed by sharks all around the globe.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. A mixed species flock of sparrows (american tree, field and chipping) was by the bike track parking lot. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. Once I looked at it through the binoculars I saw it was a male harrier.

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Lapland Adventure

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During a week based in Äkäslompolo, a small Finnish town a couple of hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, we struggled to get to 27 species. Reindeer cow A grey Red Squirrel The post Lapland Adventure first appeared on 10,000 Birds. Reindeer , of course, were everywhere, including the middle of town.

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Foster to Toora

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There is a water trough for the dairy cows, but sometimes the Pacific Black Ducks take advantage of the trough! I always approach the bridge slowly to see what bird species are below and around the area. There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. Pacific Black Ducks. White-eared Honeyeater.

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