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Whales in danger.

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A new proposal to lift the ban on commercial whaling has raised much concern amongst members of The International Fund for Animal Welfare and animal rights activists around the world. The number of whales each country will have permission to hunt is yet to be determined, and may ignore estimated sustainable whaling limits.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them. Anyone with a passing interest in Egyptian mythology has seen the man with the ibis head, the god Thoth.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). They are also hunted. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

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Comebackers

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They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Acariformes: Syringophilidae) from the Chestnut-eared Bunting (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) in Japan (morphology and DNA barcode data)” Ah, to be a scientist. In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ).

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