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A close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle

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On Wednesday this week we had a very close encounter with a Wedge-tailed Eagle on the edge of the road. The Wedge-tailed Eagle only had a meal on its mind and I only had photographs and the health and welfare of a lizard on my mind.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Common Raven not caring about the welfare of its offspring “Reihern” – to heron If someone is heroning, they are not having a good time at all, as “to heron“ describes the process of vomiting violently. The eagle-owls of the genus Bubo are all called “Uhu“.

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