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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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One would think that for a species as common in Europe as the Grey-headed Woodpecker , the HBW would spend some effort to update the species entry. If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter. I am only joking! Birds should be free. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. But it is most probable that the birds are released or escaped pets. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets! They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights.

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

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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. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. But this is too interesting a bird not to show.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

and Europe. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. Others lashed out and were killed.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

This species prefers wetlands and its numbers have been decimated due to a combination of habitat destruction caused by human population growth and illegal removal of birds and eggs from the wild for the pet and zoo trade. This strange but beautifully plumaged bird was widely known throughout Europe as the Waldrapp (meaning “Forest Crow”).