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Urban Birding in San Diego

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We would walk the Pacific Beach promenade, see Shamu at Sea World (this is before Blackfish, mind you), and sample delicious Mexican food in Old Town San Diego. Although the property has seen human impacts, there have been recent efforts to improve water quality and restore this important habitat.

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Rats help save humans.

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Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. Rats help save humans. That’s because bacterias, cancers and infections create unique smells. Sweet, fruity breath could mean diabetes. A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. Liver disease?

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Casa Ferreirinha ‘Papa Figos’ Vinho Tinto (2017)

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Of the thirty or so members of the family Icteridae that go by the name “oriole” on the western side of the Atlantic Ocean, several species are partial enough to fruit that they even visit feeders that offer it as jelly, as the sugar-preserved form usually reserved for human consumption is known.

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A Near Conjunction

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Can they ascertain how profitable a specific tree would be by some sampling method? As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. I never understood why some woodcreepers would check only a small area of one tree before flying off to another tree.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it is being affected by human intrusions?

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Snowy Owl Mania!

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Here is a pretty big sample but this is only the tip of the iceberg – feel free to leave links in the comments to any Snowy Owl bird blog content that you find! Not all interactions between humans and Snowy Owls are bad. Truly, it is a banner year for fans of Bubo scandiacus !

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Climate Change And Birds: Europe vs. North America

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The difference in the jitteryness of the lines has to do with sample size. There are way more North American birds in the sample than European, owing to differences in the quality of the data. The larger North American sample sizes smooth out the line.