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Oklahoma City Spraying Purple Martins with Fire Hoses

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A large roost of Purple Martins at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is considered a nuisance because of their droppings so they are being sprayed with fire hoses.

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Weird Factoid about Cockfighting in Oklahoma

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Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. News & World Report, 6 December 1999.

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Porcupine in my mulberry tree

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Northwestern Oklahoma submitted by /u/meowfttftt [link] [comments]

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Hagerman NWR: Birding Amidst Oil Wells

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In the Fall, Franklin’s Gulls migrate through Texas and Oklahoma on their way south. Bonus Birding : My eBird Profile also showed that I had never entered a checklist in the state of Oklahoma. There were hundreds in the fields, waiting out the driving rain, the first day I visited. eBird checklists: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4.).

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'Heartbreaking on many levels': Oklahoma group removes 12 goats from hoarding situation

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submitted by /u/SoonerSon740 [link] [comments].

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

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The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5). A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama.

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Birds and Bugs Flee Earthquake

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How cool is it that the earthquake in Oklahoma yesterday yielded radar images of birds and bugs taking flight just after the earthquake hit? Neat, right?

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