Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

KING-TV reports that both the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the deaths. The animal protection group Seal Sitters says a necropsy showed that the sea lion had suffered a shark bite and had twisted intestines in addition to a bullet wound.

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Sea Lions Lions Wounded Washington 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that Americans spend nearly $1 billion annually on bird houses, feeders, nest boxes, and baths. This latter style suffers from the problem that it must be refilled very often, because the level of food is constantly being reduced by the feeding.

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MARCH 14, 2011

The Islands hold important populations of Monk Seals as well as all the world’s Laysan Ducks and Laysan Finches. link] Duncan Mar 14th, 2011 at 11:20 pm My boss from Tern has let me know that Laysan apparently suffered “significant loss of wildlife and some damage and loss of infrastructure and equipment.&#

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The November 1962 cover of The New Yorker by Anataole Kovarksy brought the fantasy of a turkey on the Great Seal of the United States – a myth wrongly attributed to Ben Franklin’s nonexistent public views on the matter – to life on the printed page. He does not get his Living honestly.

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