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This Week in Bird News: Junk Food Junkies, Snacks on a String, and More

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This Bald Eagle, photographed by Corey, was after Blue-winged Teal in Florida, not Atlantic Puffins in Maine. But there’s plenty of better—or at least more interesting—news for birders. Look out below! Did you miss your chance to see Angry Birds in movie theaters? Fear not—the film has just been released on DVD. (In In the U.S.,

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

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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Tensions Mount over University of Florida Animal Research

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Animal rights activists are targeting a University of Florida researcher for his role in experiments on primates — even though he says he doesn't personally conduct animal research. Tags: university of florida animal research activism primates. This is a long article from the Gainesville Sun.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth Weekend of 2012)

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The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn’t traveled far. If pressed, he’ll acknowledge a Gray Kingbird found by Doug Gochfeld at Viera Wetlands – his fifth lifer and tenth ABA-area bird of his Florida trip – as his his Best Bird of the Weekend™ .

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Flock to Marion

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This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. Salvin’s Prion.

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Getting a Birder a Common Bird

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The good news is that I was helping lead the Central Florida Specialties trip the next day and Noah had signed up for it which meant I would have another chance to show him a Carolina Wren , which is, to belabor the obvious, not a bird that is normally considered a central Florida specialty.

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Unintended Consequences: Bird-Friendly Yards and Bird Deaths

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You won’t find Painted Buntings in Canada—Corey photographed these in Florida, where they are common feeder birds. These findings, published in The Condor , draw from citizen science efforts coordinated by scientists from the University of Alberta and Environment Canada.

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