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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur.

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Comebackers

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North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Raptors and other predatory birds have largely rebounded, and there seems to be be no shortage of Brown Pelicans, Peregrine Falcons and Bald Eagles. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10 Questions for Birdchick on 1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know

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They asked me to anthropomorphize and say things like, “eagles fall in love for life.” My first book was based on what used to be a page of rabbit photos on the Birdchick webpage called Disapproving Rabbits. So far, the rabbit book has proved to be the most financially successful. the answer to that is always yes).

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