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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

I am sure it has some value, but would I really want to spend a few months or even years on “Ticks on Crested Francolins and on the vegetation on a farm in Limpopo Province, South Africa “ ? .” I wish I had this kind of optimism. UysI and G. On the one hand, an adult will take nearly 100 blood-engorged female ticks in a day.

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What’s in a Name: Wilson’s Warbler

10,000 Birds

Speaking of stunning, one of my best bird memories will always be the moment when I spotted a bright male Blackburnian Warbler glowing in the trees above a small pond on my parents’ farm, and another is my first childhood American Redstart flitting out to hawk insects above a stream.

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The European Christmas Bird Count

10,000 Birds

Traditional farming landscape of small holdings, hedges and groves draped in snow… I actually hate snow, but on days like this, cannot resist it. The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. Leaving the village behind, we entered a former flood plain, now cut off by the levees, which were our target areas for the day.

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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

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Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! I hope you enjoy these photos! We had collected it to remove from the beach, but it was very useful for sea snakes.

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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. Do not expect a taxi driver to know the site as it is basically a turf farm with little or nothing to attract punters in from the outside. You will need to know the way.

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.” In July, a divided U.S.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”