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Florida Man Charged for Killing Egret

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of Largo, Florida, is charged with animal cruelty. Then he captured the injured bird, according to police, and killed it. After killing the bird, police said, Patterson stuffed its carcass inside a plastic trash bag and put it in a large bin at Keystone Mobile Home Park. Jere Martin Patterson Jr.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor.

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Birds on Utility Poles – The Electrocution Solution

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She can land on a transformer once then, the next time, be killed when she brushes up against the jumper wire. Jayne Neville, a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in songbirds, moved from Connecticut to Florida and immediately began making the acquaintance of all the birds in the area.

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How did the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale get its name?

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However, other human activities—like fishing and shipping—are still killing these whales. Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, taken under NOAA permit 20556 submitted by /u/IFAWUK [link] [comments] Today, there are about 350 North Atlantic right whales, and the species is no longer hunted.

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Florida Man saves pet dog from alligator attack: ‘It’s killing her’

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submitted by /u/Itchy0101 [link] [comments].

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Why Go to the 16th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival?

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How cool is it that you will be birding in an area with a reptile that could drag you under and kill you? Such big beautiful birds should not allow such close approach but Florida is extremely blessed with confiding herons, cranes, egrets, ibises, and Limpkins. Seriously, get yourself to Titusville, Florida, in January.

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21 Polo Horses Die in Florida

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So far they have ruled out disease and are even looking into the possibility that they were deliberately killed. Authorities are looking in the deaths of 21 polo horses from Argentina.

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