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The return of the Old Man

10,000 Birds

According to Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World , a handsome volume written by James Hancock, James Kushan and Philip Kohl and published by Academic Press in 1992, Geronticus eremita “once nested in the mountains of central Europe, across northern Africa and into the Middle East. But this range is now much reduced.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. According to R.D.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. and Europe. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. But dogs have evolved an extraordinarily rich social intelligence as they’ve adapted to life with us.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. They are also hunted. I don’t think so.

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

10,000 Birds

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

10,000 Birds

Yes, that really is a bird and it doesn’t have anything to do with a tiny country in Europe. Sharing those special birds with so many like-minded people of all ages may have been the most magical experience on race day. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : We also helped one or two other teams get this one on race day.