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If you live near a petco

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They also sometimes house rats and Guinea pigs alone wich will cause depression. They also give out the most ass "care info" with some of the info literally ment to kill/ make your animal sick. Hamsters also need to be housed alone and need around 3ft of space.

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Georgian Raptor Protector Up for “Green Oscar”

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As Director of SABUKO (the Society for Nature Conservation) , Rukhaia has led his colleagues in making a substantial impact, driving the number of birds killed in two villages down by 80% since 2010. Which makes him a formidable candidate for the prestigious prize.

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Others Reasons to Visit Cassowary House

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A Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ) that may have tried to kill me. Cassowary House isn’t just a place to rest your head with some birds, it is also the headquarters of Sicklebill Tours, famous for it’s jaunts to New Guinea.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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While not in New Guinea and the tropical Pacific, he helped establish natural history-based undergraduate student programs that integrate indigenous communities with wildlands conservation in threatened landscapes of western North America and Central America.” One look at his bio and you know he’s trouble.

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Black Butcherbirds killing a snake

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The genus includes six medium sized butcherbirds and the much larger and terrestrial Australian Magpie (formerly assigned its own genus), and are found across Australia and New Guinea. I was walking through the Cairns Botanical Gardens when close to the road I found a pair of them killing a snake on the ground.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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The five most unique birds in the world

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The large, pied, knob-headed Magpie Goose of Australia and New Guinea is the sole living member of an early anseriform waterfowl lineage. The Secretarybird is a powerful, long-legged terrestrial hunter particularly well known for killing snakes by stamping them to death but also perfectly happy to consume other animal prey.