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Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

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Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information. Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers.

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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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But marrying a widow and thus getting access to scientific information was not the only remarkable event in his life. Even the review has some interesting information – for example, a major predator of eagle nests is the Brown Bear.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. His Wikipedia entry has its fair share of useless but amusing information on him: “In his personal matters he was said to be careless and forgetful. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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A side benefit of the unfamiliar patient is the sudden need for information that leads a pile of new and interesting facts – for example, ‘Hurricane Bird’ is another of the old names, along with ‘Man o’ War’ and ‘Pirate Bird.’). Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird!

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.