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Snail Kites at East Lake Toho

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Every time I go to the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I make sure to go out of my way to spend some time with Snail Kites. Perfectly adapted for their lifestyle, the Snail Kite is an amazing hawk. 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. ……….

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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. “Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US. Nicole: Glad you liked it!

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First Noel

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An itinerant lifestyle, while wonderful in some regards, does not lend itself to forming certain connections. Despite low numbers of some species, it gradually became apparent that this year was going to be special. Scaup photo by David Menke and Bufflehead by Donna Dewhurst, via the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Lango Camp deck overlooking Lango Baï, by Congo Conservation Company The forests of the Congo Basin contain more than a 1,000 species of birds, together with 400 species of mammals, including Okapi, Hippos, Leopards, Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.

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A scaredy cat is always a scaredy cat

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These sorts of tests have been done in many species and it has always been assumed (hoped), that what they found in the little white cages at the back of the zoology department had some wonderful relevance to what happened in the real world. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. Makes sense really.

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