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A Fistful of British Bird Bloggers

10,000 Birds

Here a poacher turned birder, one time owner of a seventies perm and a blogger who shamelessly uses his dog Bunty to draw in readers plies his trade. Stewart’s sketches and watercolours are worth a bookmark alone and have frequently adorned the cover of the county Annual reports over the years.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556.

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