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You Can Go Your Own Way

10,000 Birds

Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google Maps. This experience of finding an entirely new, but very birdy, site is nothing unusual for me. I have had much better experiences with the nature reserves located around the edges of Morelia.

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Animal Stories Wanted

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Essays must be vivid and dramatic; they should combine a strong and compelling narrative with a significant element of research or information, and reach for some universal or deeper meaning in personal experiences. We’re looking for well-written prose, rich with detail and a distinctive voice.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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The sweeping set of reforms provided for in Act 154 (P S. 2552) place Puerto Rico among the top tier of U.S. states and jurisdictions with regards to the strength of their laws protecting animals.

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Changing Career? 7 Ways To Make The Right Change First Time

10,000 Birds

Your past employment, your experience, a little about yourself and your achievements and any qualifications that you may have. Highlighting your experience and making it apparent why that is necessary for the job you want to go for. Tailor your resume specifically to the job and career you want.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years. In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

Shelves of feeders to choose from, ranging from inexpensive tubes to porcelain sculptures; bags and barrels of shelled and unshelled seed, including something called variously thistle, nyjer or niger; guidelines on when, how, where to do the actual feeding. There was cleaning, lots of cleaning of feeders and yard. And squirrels.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

10,000 Birds

There is a lot in this chapter about fallouts and tropical storms, but there are also guidelines for analyzing the commonplace, case studies of how shorebirds are grounded by a strong storm system and how increased tailwinds may result in wonderful rarities that have ended up too far north.