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Operation Duck Drop

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The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. From: Sparrow. To: Sparrow. Outstanding work, Sparrow! Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. From: Sparrow. To: Sparrow. From: Sparrow. To: Sparrow. Wait, you actually killed someone?

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Spring Migrants at Bayonne Park

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On Wednesday morning I had a meeting in Bayonne, New Jersey for my job and as is my wont I left my house in Queens early to beat the traffic and therefore found myself with a little over an hour to kill before my meeting. Then a flock of flickers foraging in a field got my attention and I parked and went over to investigate.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. The more glass, the more bird kills. I hoped it was an anomaly.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. Council Member Betsy Hodges echoed the same sentiment as she voted in favor of the ordinance.