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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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Had it not been for the Wild Turkey, for instance, the first Pilgrims to America, the English ones, would not, possibly, have survived, he says. FYI, the occasionally-reliable www says that the term was invented because the goose-bumps on withdrawing addicts’ flesh resembles that on the necks of turkeys.)

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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Turkey Vulture ripped a flap off my lip,” said Sharron Montgomery, showing what a ‘stiff upper lip’ means to a rehabber. “It Another time I was wearing gloves, just as I should have been, and an adult raccoon bit through them and took a divot out of my middle finger. It took seven sutures to put it back on.”. “I

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Pokemon and Birds at Maine Audubon

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We also marveled at a flock of Wild Turkeys (complete with babies!), Flock of Wild Turkeys. Trails wove through stands of birch trees, skirted the edge of the water, and wound back through the meadows of swaying wildflowers. looked out over mudflats filled with gulls, and spotted about a gazillion American Goldfinches.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. The live feed can be monitored by any and all who are willing to watch.