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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp.,

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

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How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Avery offers some interesting insights into the biology of the Passenger Pigeon.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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