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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. Although the Minnesota Vikings stadium (officially the U.S.

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Birds Nesting In Siding

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Both are non-native species in Minnesota and drive out native flickers, bluebirds and other cavity nesters to take over to raise their own young. Here the male House Sparrow attacks the invading starling. I really wasn’t sure who to root for in this photo. The sparrows will go as far to kill the original makers of the cavity.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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How it raised its chicks? If he were a Minnesota dentist, or a Texas veterinarian, or a beauty contestant posing with this trophy, would his argument for justifying this death be any different? Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food? How its diet changed seasonally?

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Some rehabbers even have surrogate ducks or geese that they can raise a lone chick with and teach it to survive.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. in Minnesota. The new study is about Cliff Swallows ( Petrochelidon pyrrhonota ) in southwestern Nebraska.

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

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While other people might trade barbs or even turn to fisticuffs, I'd dig deep for the most hurtful thing I could say, in the fewest words, and deliver it without even raising my voice. The husband and I took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) a couple of months ago and received the most unremarkable results.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

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All the info I needed came in an e-mail from a Minnesota birder named Peder. I raised a bottle of beer in its honor, then headed for my hotel, satisfied that the day was mine. I contacted my pal Dave Lambeth, ace birder of Grand Forks, North Dakota and he made some inquiries on my behalf. A toast to a great life bird.