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Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

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Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species. The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. So crazy it just might work?

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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It is also a month when the Law of Diminishing Returns over-took itself. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. 28 May 2018. 28 May 2018.

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Collaborative List – January 2018

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A line plotted against the law of diminishing returns describes an increasingly downward curve and a lister’s life is destined to follow that decline. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. Ardastra Zoo & Gardens. 06 Jan 2018.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

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For the German flag, the “Grundgesetz” (the German basic law) states that the color of the national flag is black-red-gold. She also laid eggs in Melba Finch nests. However, whenever you see a German flag, you will notice that the last color clearly is yellow, not gold. Red-billed Firefinch. Poor creatures.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. A newly created U.S.

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