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The Fallen Yellowlegs

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Yesterday morning was simply one of those incredibly eventful birding sessions, about which I may expound upon in parts within the coming weeks. Rising above all within my psyche however, is the following sequence of events that unfolded before breakfast. Upon arrival, activity seemed slow. A moment of silence for the departed.

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Second Annual National Family Pack Walk

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Cesar Millan, and Scooby-Doo have partnered again for the Second Annual National Family Pack Walk on September 29 in Washington, D.C. with the large-scale National Family Pack Walk taking place on the National Mall. Proceeds from all National Family Pack Walk events throughout the country will be donated to the Millan Foundation.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. Sometimes that one reaches adulthood, but just as often it disappears.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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’s bird family tree in a new tab and follow along as you read. date the split of those branches to 88 million years ago, well before the extinction event that wiped out all non-bird dinosaurs and many other forms of life about 66 million years ago (the K-Pg boundary). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al.

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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

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Both were too small for a human hand and too deep to see what was inside, so he called PMWC and was asked to bring the entire section of trunk to the center. Cutting one tree down displaced two very different wildlife families,” said Michele. Two families were split up and made homeless by the cutting of one tree.

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On Stanley and Family Commitments

Animal Person

Violet's a member of our family. So when we adopted a human baby we knew we'd have to teach that human to avoid Violet. The growing little human in the house was basically taught to stay far away from dogs and respect their space. Stanley, Emily, Violet and Sky are members of our family. He had spent 3.5

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Lady Amherst’s Pheasant

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What most people do not know is that this common occurrence was actually the inspiration for a Johnny Cash song, “ Boy named Sue “ Of course, as this song was written for humans rather than for birds, the situation was adapted accordingly. But the gist of the story remains the same.

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