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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. At the edge of the forest, above the road, a Roe Deer swiftly disappears between trees. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus. Chaffinch – Fringilla coelebs. Goldfinch – Carduelis carduelis. Serin – Serinus serinus.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

They’re all named for livestock. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Wicked, right?

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Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

10,000 Birds

The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. A White-crowned Sparrow is always a beautiful subject! Here was my first surprise, an Mac Gillivray’s Warbler.

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