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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Birds Conservation Bell Labs poisons Hawk rat poison Motomco wild bird poisoning wildlife poisoning'

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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

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They were named for the Isle of Man but are no longer found there – the arrival of the brown rat ruined that home for them. (But But there is, apparently, and thanks to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, some good news on the rat front in that part of the world.).

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The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”

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Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. Rats did it in, as they did so many species. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. You can see a PDF of that paper here. (I

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

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Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Maupiti Monarch.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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