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Run for the Seals

4 The Love Of Animals

Animal lovers, here is a great way to help seals and have fun at the same time! If you are in California, check out Run for the Seals ! They hope to raise $100,000 to feed and care for seal pup patients during their busiest time of year – the spring pupping season. The event takes place Saturday, March 10, 2012.

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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

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a sea gull.''” Of course, that raises an important question – what is the most interesting gull in the world? If you would kindly ignore the fact that it eats putrid, bloating seals, it’s adorable. Still, those Ivory Gulls surviving off those putrid seals are tough cookies. It’s pink. Sometimes.

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Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

10,000 Birds

Die-offs and population drops of other Puffin colonies in the eastern part of their range, as well as among the terns of Machias Seal Island in Maine—a sharp decline in the number of returning birds, coupled with breeding failures—do not bode well for the Puffins.

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The Top 5 Avian Ambassadors of Costa Rica

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Some might even protest at being kept separate, raising their voices as they eye the main conference birds with hungry intent. Would those polar counterparts laugh over similar life situations (“You also like 3 day old seal blubber?”), There would also be drama! Tubenoses suck!”).

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San Francisco – short of time and money.

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Guano-covered rocks (called Seal Rocks I am told, but my guess is that a seal would struggle to get up here to bask) just off the beach will probably quickly catch your attention. There is a raised, walled area to the right (north towards the entrance of the bay). A morning visit gives excellent light conditions from behind.

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West Point Cadet’s Mouse Release

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Carefully rehabbed seals are released, only to find an orca waiting silently beneath the water a hundred feet away. I once raised 5 orphaned blue jays, released them, and was happily watching them fly around my house one afternoon when a Cooper’s Hawk blazed through, grabbed one, and disappeared. But this is not always the case.

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City Hornbills

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Okay, they weren’t as fascinating as the birds of prey eating their, or the frankly still weird drawings of nightjars carrying eggs and woodcocks carrying chicks, but still, hornbills were cool because they sealed their mates up in holes in trees and then fed them as they raised the chick.

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