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Whooper Swans at Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido

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On the one hand, they are very easy to see in Germany, swimming in public parks or teaching pensioners how to eat bread. However, some swans claim that the views are much better in the highland habitat, and others are not that keen on raising chicks anyway. To be honest, I never cared too much for swans.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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