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The Catbird Seat

10,000 Birds

Because while everyone who’s taken middle school English Lit knows why it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird, everyone who listened to baseball on the radio knows why it’s a great thing to be in the Catbird seat. As a kid and teenager, I’d listen to the St. Louis Cardinals on the radio in Ozark, Missouri.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

10,000 Birds

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. I suspect this will be the first and last time we’ll see a beer featuring this species, an introduced Old-World songbird best known in North America from its St.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. If you happen to live in St. Louis, USA, you can see the species at your local zoo. ” Everybody wants to lay the groundwork, nobody wants to go into details.

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