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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Fast food containers are popular. “An The prize for presentation goes to the folks who delivered this very small opossum to Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia. “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. They were out in the field doing surveys and they found him.

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Iguanas Love Roti!

10,000 Birds

But, as Wikipedia points out, it has taken on a new meaning in the Caribean: The roti wrap is the commercialization of roti and curry as a fast-food item in the Caribbean. This trio is less than half of the iguanas present. It usually refers to an unleavened bread of the type made in south Asia. Can you blame them?

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Awesome Birding at Aripo Savannah

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Bad photo of a good bird: presenting the Red-breasted Blackbird We definitely missed some birds that would have been splendid to see, rarities like Fork-tailed Palm Swift , Red-bellied Macaw , and the scarcer flycatchers, tanagers, and orioles. But the birds already mentioned came out so quickly that we felt fully sated in minutes.

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On "Food Inc."

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Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. And then the way we eat causes diabetes.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

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From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself.

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

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Common Myna , a fairly recent introduction, is practically a specialist in dumpster diving at fast food joints, roosting under vehicles near shopping malls, and nesting in neon store signs. If enough trees are present, Blue Jay and Red-bellied Woodpecker become distinct possibilities.

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South Florida Specialties Birding

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One of the species he called out, Red-masked Parakeet , was present in numbers and nesting at the location. And could we just do a quick drive through at a fast food joint? We had to eat some wonderfully prepared Lebanese food including some outstanding hummus. Too bad they’re not countable Carlos! Of course not!

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