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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

“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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Pets Aplenty Blog Tour

4 The Love Of Animals

Pets Aplenty draws on experiences in his life as a vet, but told through the eyes of his alter ego, Paul Mitchell. We start right off with some crazy shenanigans that center around Paul dressing like a rabbit as part of a fund raising attempt. So, let’s chat about the book!

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Owls, the debait

10,000 Birds

Inspire me to try a little harder to get that composition just right, to get that jaw-dropping moment. Great Gray Owl taking the bait (photo by Nathalie Fortier) At the end of the experience, she posted her photographs clearly stating that the bird was baited, and leaving the mouse in most photos.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. Lions quenching their thirst in Etosha National Park by Adam Riley Observing Lions hunting is a thrilling experience. Rhinoceros Beetles are nocturnal and most often found at night when they are attracted to bright lights.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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