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The Gas Station Bird

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It’s under the jurisdiction of the Exotic Species Division of the Department of Environmental Protection, which is a division of US Fish and Wildlife. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine. The bird is a captive-bred Peregrine/Gyrfalcon hybrid owned by people with an Exotic Species Permit.

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Audubon’s Footsteps

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Clavruel’s book is not a day-by-day recreation of Audubon’s various itineraries, but rather a loose investigation of “regions and birds unknown to me,” he says, prompted by his “desire to meet and sketch people who live each day in contact with nature.” Logan, reviewed previously on this site by Carrie.).

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Maybe it was a version of the Mississippi River, maybe it was a version of the Warren River, likely both. The tend to stay asea, bobbing and rolling in the surf, staying away form shore and presumably eating small fish. That would of course require that fish lived in those lakes.) Thus, in light of recent marine oil spills (e.g.,

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