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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Deserts. The first of the series premiers June 10th, 2012.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. First of all they wanted useful species.

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Only for Dogs and Birders – Kalamas Delta, Greece

10,000 Birds

But, passing numerous Red-backed Shrikes , Western Yellow Wagtails and a herd of sheep among tussocks of long grasses, I remember those egrets. The first good bird was one Grey Plover (in North America a.k.a. At the same time, a flock of egrets is flying low against the hill. Could they possibly be…?

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A Stick! A Bird! A Tree!–Books on Nature for Parents & Kids

10,000 Birds

These are fairly simple activities, no scavenger hunts or bird identification exercises, and it occurred to me that some are activities I thought up on my own in past years, to work through with my nephews. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. The species accounts are expansive, giving much more than identification points.