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Can the Falcons Win the Super Bowl?

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Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. In Super Bowl XLVIII, the mighty Seattle Seahawks took a title, though they lost the following year to the aforementioned Patriots. Teams named for Homo sapiens historically do better in this game. But could the team’s name be a factor?

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Year of the Eagle

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His other books told the story of the cycle of water and chronicled life of waterfowl in the Seattle Arboretum. located across a large lake from Seattle. By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” It really looked like a game of tag.

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Taking on Turkeys

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A recent news story (OK, the word “news” is stretched here, as it’s more of a roundup of local “turkeys on the rampage” stories) documents close encounters of the nasty kind between wild turkeys and humans, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to California.

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