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Week Fourteen: The Center of Australia, and Sydney Part #1

10,000 Birds

This Wedge-tailed Eagle was sitting along side one of the roads, eyeing a small road killed Kangaroo. Many of the birds were being wing tagged and GPS makers as well in order to track their movements. He is one of the nine birds that I saw with wing tags. This Pied Butcherbird was right at the base to Ayres Rock.

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Australian Fireman Honored by Animal Rights Activists

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Peta called on authorities to add cruelty to animals to the arson charge laid against a 39-year-old man on Friday in connection with a bushfire in rural Victoria state that killed 21 people. Tags: wildlife crime natural disaster australia animal rescue wildlife PETA. This tragedy has shown the best and worst in people,' Mr Baker said.

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Many Animals Dying in Australian Wildfires

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There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said. Hundreds of burned, stressed and dehydrated animals — including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and birds — have already arrived at shelters across the scorched region.

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