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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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Linkwood Distillery: 15 Years Old Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky

10,000 Birds

A silhouetted Golden Eagle in flight appears on all current bottlings by Ardmore, and over the years, the same species has occasionally appeared on various products by Scottish distilleries like Glenfarclas and Mortlach.

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The Ubiquitous European Starling: The Bird We Love to Hate

10,000 Birds

He allegedly proposed to introduce every species of bird mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to the United States. Starlings are a super competitive cavity nesting bird that aggressively evicts other species from nesting cavities. This is one of the reasons why so many bird lovers dislike the European Starling.

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Zero Gravity Brewing Company: Bobolink Saison

10,000 Birds

For many grassland species, our vast expanses of tilled and plowed fields, orchards and vineyards, pastures and rangeland offer an abundance of convenient food and shelter – and some bolder birds even wander indoors to find these things in our barns and stables. For most of history, beer has thrived in agrarian settings, too.

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Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

10,000 Birds

The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. Home to over 200 species, this amazing area is quite susceptible to the amount of rainfall each year.

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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

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Mosquitoes bite humans and animals with no regard to species, and they bring along a number of illnesses. Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus.

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

10,000 Birds

Once an obscure, rustic product hard to find outside of its Wallonian homeland, saisons are now familiar to drinkers around the world, who know them as refreshing, zesty ales loaded with spicy and fruity flavors produced by distinctive farmhouse yeast strains that saison brewers have cultivated for generations. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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