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ADVICE: malnurished kitten refusing to eat

Reddit Animals

(i have uploaded this to multiple other animal based forums) my family and i rescue kittens and today i found a tuxedo kitten (about a month old i'd say) in the middle of the road. it has no extertal wounds beside the fact that its right eye seems to be either stuck together/possible wounded and healing.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family.

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When two halves do not make a whole

10,000 Birds

We birders don’t always like to ruminate on missed birds, for some of us the wounds are worn too close to the surface. Things looked right. But then the bird turned, and things didn’t look quite right. But I happen to think that those stories are better than the ones with happy endings. The darker purplish gorget.

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Fizzle’s Story

4 The Love Of Animals

After talking to Barb’s family, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that they were anticipating her passing with a sense of weary relief, so I was surprised when the hospice nurse called me on the day of Barb’s death and asked me to come out to the home quickly. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds.

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Transit in Dubai

10,000 Birds

Security is taken very seriously in the aviation business and discretion is better than having to explain yourself to tightly wound security personnel. Families spend their quality time together on Thursday evenings and Fridays, so parks and open spaces become very busy. This will put you onto a 2.5km circular drive.

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German Birding Blitz

10,000 Birds

Either that or having family friends in Germany. After the castle we wound our way through the Black Forest where we were able to watch a pair of Eurasian Three-toed Woodpeckers foraged a few feet in front of us. At the city castle I was able to watch, from a distance, a Hawfinch foraging on the ground.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Back in the olden days of the family farm we never knew about the occurrence of food-related illness because we did not have a way of tracking it. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y.,