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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

Hospice Tails is a series of true stories about my experiences with pets and patients as a hospice social worker. The thin, spider-web scars on her knuckles spoke to intimate experience with hand-to-hand combat. He’s only about the size of a rat.”. The whole process had taken four hours.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective.

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

10,000 Birds

It was duly processed and labeled and in his notes he wrote the following: Sturnus. Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. Rats did it in, as they did so many species. This fact alone is not at all surprising. L 7 1/2 inch.

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