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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

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This species loves to sing while high up in pine trees. But I was delighted to see a Black-chinned Sparrow near the shore; this is only my eighth sighting of this species. Sometimes it is a flower (of which there were oodles), a reptile (lizards, and a small snake), or an insect. Mexican Violetears have such beautiful colors!

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species. The traits have to be unambiguously linked to the entities we are calling extinct species and thus, the traits are unambiguously linked to each other. This requires a few things to be true, depending on the fossils. What evolved into what?

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