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Mast Landing Brewing Company: Pantless Thunder Goose Double India Pale Ale

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For some time after that, the hive mind of the internet was inspired to engage in an infantile but good-natured effort to bring forth a whole host of silly new names for animals, resulting in a wholesale renaming of living organisms not seen since Carl Linnaeus published his Systema Naturae in 1735.

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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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This is a perfect example of the old adage, “If you want to change the world, start in your own backyard.”. Part of the rabbit he had caught was still entangled in a nearby powerline. Knowing the dangling rabbit remains would be an irresistible target for other birds, Jayne called the local power company. It’s not.

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Is there an animal like this?

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And are sensible to things, be it sound, smell, they can sense things, be alert, like cat whiskers, or rabbit ears, etc. Optional: - that they sleep a lot or sleep more during certain times of the year. very curious but scaredy or wary - they can jump.

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Not enough Woodpeckers

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“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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In another of these strenuous links to something rather irrelevant that this blog hopefully is not famous for yet, there is a great song by Frank Turner, “A wave across a bay” About Scott Hutchison, singer of the band Frightened Rabbit who committed suicide at a bay in Scotland.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. My job is to move ahead and kick bushes in the hope of flushing a rabbit or hare. “HO!!

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

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Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this. He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park.

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