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Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field?

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But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play? Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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That’s one reason, probably the biggest reason, why we don’t have centennials for animals that become extinct in the wild. Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious. Well, it would have been in 1944… or 1952 or somewhere in between. In 1952, at least in the US, no one wanted to be a Debbie Downer.