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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

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Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. If you are a non-meat-eating, non-leather-wearing, non-shampoo-using, animal-rights activist for PETA, then it is not hypocritical to judge Vick for animal abuse. Like Vick, most of us shamelessly abuse and kill animals. Chefs place live lobsters in pots of boiling water.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. ” one.