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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t. It’s complicated.

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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

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Although if you want to see a bunch of Turkey Vultures it’s a pretty good strategy. And who doesn’t want to see a bunch of Turkey Vultures?) Still, the tip was all I needed to jump online and do some quick research (and all praises to the internet for making such things possible!)

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes.

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Week Fourteen: Cairns, and the Great Barrier Reef. Part #2

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Later on, as my research got a little bit more detailed, this might just turn out to be a huge stop. I was able to convince Murray Hunt to take us out for a morning cruise on the Daintree River, despite late notice, and that it was a Sunday morning that looked to be really crappy weather. Here is the male Australasian Figbird.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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You don't find many hunters who candidly and unapologetically say: "I hunt because I like to kill. Hunting wouldn't be the "noble," "manly" "sport" that it is, if these were the reasons for doing it. Hunting wouldn't be the "noble," "manly" "sport" that it is, if these were the reasons for doing it.