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Osprey Cam

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One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood. This is my first season with the ranch, and I’m very excited to being putting some of my theories about nest cams into practice.

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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Here is a handy exercise that you can try to give you long frustrating hours on the computer and provide a good excuse to avoid contact with the rest of humanity. A stem of plant material with a cluster of pink Apple Snail’s eggs are marring the picture by covering part of the eye. Let him cast the first stone.

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72 dangerous animals africa

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They are the heaviest and largest living birds, with adult common ostriches weighing anywhere between 140-320 lbs and laying the largest eggs of any living land animal. Ostrich eggs have been used by humans for millennia. Ostrich eggs have been used by humans for millennia. With the ability to run at 70 km/h (43.5

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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

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Box after box of egg. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. ” I feel that way about hunting as a conservation tool too sometimes, wondering if perhaps its best to not tell people what conservationists and scientists do because people get angry about the wrong things. Bush Wrens.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Author Sophie A. Osborn, photo by Lisa Koitzsch, © Sophie A.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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They have special adaptations to stay warm and to keep their eggs and chicks warm. However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size.

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Bird Banding the Dry Tortugas

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As we looked closer, we saw the Sooty Terns nesting right on the ground itself, calling back and forth to each other as they sat on their speckled eggs. As a group we tagged and weighed more than 500 terns, terns that can be recaptured in the future to teach us humans more about the dynamics of the colony.

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