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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. . One of the birds most affected by this is Cassin’s Auklets.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

We all know the answer to that – not thinking at all about the how – how on earth you actually do that – and causing a civil war that has killed hundreds of millions. Invade… I’m sorry, liberate Iraq and we’ll be welcomed with flowers and democracy will spring forth. I hear you. I really do.

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