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The Blood Pheasant

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The Latin species name cruentus , “blood-stained” has the same background Blood Pheasants mainly feed on mosses – not many bird species do this as mosses are not very nutritious. One paper identified the number of flocks in their research area “by tracing their tracks in the snow” Very Cowboys and Indians.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Syngenta advises users to “NOT place baits in locations which are accessible to pets, domestic animals, livestock or birds” or to “contaminate dams, waterways and drains with the bait or its used container.”

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Whooping Crane Ancestry

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Moreover, the pair I saw was feeding from a livestock trough alongside a group of cattle. The blue-blue bird is identified as number 1282 in the studbook, one of the oldest birds in the surviving flock, born at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center on the 2nd of June 1993 and relocated to central Florida on the 20th of April 1994.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. A harem system would indicate that the males gather and forcibly retain the affections of their females, as is the case with the savanna baboon species, but not with Geladas. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Companhia das Lezírias ‘Tyto alba’ Vinhas Protegidas Tinto (2013)

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The region boasts some of the country’s richest farmland and besides wine, the estate produces rice, cork, and livestock. Upriver and closer to the vineyards, Companhia das Lezírias has been involved in supporting the TytoTagus project, a post-breeding dispersal study conducted by the ornithology department of the University of Évora.

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

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Even the brewery’s spent grains, once shoveled out of the mash tun, are hauled off to a local farm as livestock feed. A Great Horned Owl , the most expected owl species in Colorado Springs according to eBird. Could this be Le Capitaine?

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