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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

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Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. And what about lifestyle? Gulls are generalists, as a group, and unfortunately that does not get a lot of respect from humans, even though we’re the greatest generalists of all.

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Finding Dippers in Berlin

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This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. Any dipper, any continent, any birder.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. So the human equivalent of frog in a bowl might be. So assaying exploratory tendency in humans. sort of “bland&# diet (e.g.

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A long way from nowhere

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This is what wikipedia has to say about Stoke’s Sea Snake: “Although aggressive with a venomous bite, there are no reported human fatalities attributed to Stokes’ seasnake.&# We are remote but what a great lifestyle! However, I must critizise this post of yours. Are you running out of really dangerous critters?

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? Humanity is not very human. You should try it too.

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