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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. I have to remind him that we can’t ship everything to Iraq; there’s only so much our boxes will hold. Be sure to pick up a copy (and some tissues too)!

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

10,000 Birds

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Like this bird family b.

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