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A couple of facts :D

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Seals can mimic humans, you've heard of Crows and Parrots mimicing human speech but Seals can to, one Harbor seal named Hoover was able to mimic his owners voice and could say stuff like "Get over here!" Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses.

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Five Famous First Pets

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Kennedy’s family owned many pets, including a horse, which was a present to 5 year-old Caroline Kennedy. Caroline often rode the horse around the White House lawn. Polly the parrot. First Pet, 1789-1791): In addition to horses and hound dogs, George Washington owned a parrot. Macaroni the pony. Bonus Facts!

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Fair parts of the property were used to cultivate different crops, some areas were pasture for cows and horses, and other areas were covered in forest that was meant to be logged, selectively or otherwise. Parrots galore : Down by this one river, there were flocks of Mealy, Red-lored, White-crowned, Blue-headed, and Brown-hooded Parrots.

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600 Bird Species in Costa Rica by August, 2015. Which Birds Are Missing?

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Sometimes, you gotta travel to find the breaks in the rain but when you do, the toucans are calling, and parrots, raptors, and other large birds are trying to dry out in the treetops. Raptors : A pretty high number of raptor species occur in Costa Rica but hold your feathered horses raptorphiles because most are rare!

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

The afternoon birds also included Capped Heron , Mealy Parrot , Drab Water Tyrant , Amazonian Tyrannulet , Green-tailed Jacamar and more than 40 Sand-colored Nighthawks. Yet, we had a good two hours or almost 50 kilometres by 75 horse-powered speedboat to reach Inirida at sunset. Cerros de Mavecure, photo by Juan Carlos.

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Foster to Toora

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I have encountered Striated Thornbills , Rufous Fantails , Australian King Parrots , Crimson Rosellas , Rainbow Lorikeets , Golden Whistler , Rufous Whistler , Grey Shrike-thrush , Eastern Crested Shrike-tit , Orange-winged Varied Sittella , Striated Pardalote , Spotted Pardalote and White-throated Treecreepers.

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Burra Rock Conservation Reserve

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Then in the morning they would bucket the water onto the granite with the use of horses and the granite would explode in layers. The timber cutters lived in bush camps along the woodlines and with some ingenuity they built an eleven million gallon dam to provide water to the woodline steam trains. Dam at Burra Rock.