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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. And oh crap, you guys, we really have to do something about the California Condor situation right now, but what? We could do it! Then the 80s happened.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. For a split-second I was considering the white morph of the Booted Eagle… while noticing that they do not have long stork necks and that they were… Egyptian Vultures ! Raising and lowering its head, like stretching.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. My friend on the end of the line got right to the point: “What does a Kingfisher look like?” Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks.

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