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My Favorite Release

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August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! Finally, it was just Sophie left. You can do this!

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America?

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. The large, crested Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) inhabited Choiseul and perhaps nearby islands in the Solomon Islands.