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The Razorbill Invasion of Florida

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Razorbills ( Alca torda ) have invaded the coastal waters of Florida on an unprecedented scale this December of 2012. As the storm was pulled northward across Cuba and the Bahamas, it began to temporarily weaken, lose convection, and suffer from dry air intrusion before it began interacting with an incoming trough.

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Florida Man Charged for Killing Egret

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of Largo, Florida, is charged with animal cruelty. The egret suffered “multiple fractures to the wing and neck area,” the report said. Jere Martin Patterson Jr. Patterson shot the bird multiple times with a BB gun, police said. Then he captured the injured bird, according to police, and killed it.

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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). In 2021, Florida banned reticulated pythons, forcing Coffee to find homes for the pythons outside of Florida. He had a total of 120 pythons he needed to rehome.

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Glue Trapped

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Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Glue traps: For compassion’s sake, please do not set, place, or hang them. Here’s why.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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What is the State Bird of Maryland?

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Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. However, they have suffered habitat loss not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America. Suddenly, we catch a flash of bright orange: a Baltimore Oriole.

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Birds In a Changing Climate: A Primer

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Though all birds will be somehow impacted by climate change, I think it is important to note that not all will suffer. High elevation species will surely suffer from shifting and reduced habitat, and that process seems to have started already. Will early-arriving birds suffer from having to endure late winter storms?