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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. 10000birds.com/the-search-for-the-rarest-owl-of-india.htm. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. And it becomes a motionless observer once more.

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A Twitch at Two, and the Flood

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But I’m not talking about owling, or listening for rails, or even pointing a microphone skyward to collect flight calls of migrants. Which these days involves a frenzy to breed and raise a brood. Birds arrive, and immediately start the business of breeding, so they can raise a family and be gone before winter arrives.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. to have and raise children. Should we see a parallel between the alpine accentor and traditional populations of the highest mountains in the world? Wicked, right?

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