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Different nesting options :)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:33:36 GMT

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A nest of a Bullock's oriole that is made up almost entirely of plastic. Many birds use any available items to build their homes, but some synthetic fibers can be harmful to chicks.

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This nest from an African tailorbird was collected in Tanzania in 1961. The birds use their bills as needles to sew the nest together.

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The nest of a banded wren, surrounded by one-inch thorns. At the time the nest was collected, the thorns were full of ants.

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The nest of a Say's phoebe, built in a hurricane lamp. This species often reuses the nests of other perching birds as its own.

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A nest built in a can by a Bewick's wren that was collected near Los Angeles in 1918.

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These nests are typical of those created out of mud by cliff swallows.

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The nest of a Costa's hummingbird, resting on a cactus.

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Chicken soup also good for souls of pandas

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:43:39 GMT

clipped by: hotdoge3
clipper's remarks: Good for you & Pandas

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

Chicken soup also good for souls of pandas

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul - even pandas.

The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday.

He Zhihua said 3-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei - literally meaning "Hope" and "Greatness" - were tired and suffering from a little shock since the start Tuesday of the week-long National Day holiday, one of the biggest travel seasons of the year.

The pandas were served 1kg of soup in giant dishes, in addition to their regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns, He said. It was a hit.

"They drank it all like they drank their milk. They loved it," he said.

Pandas' diets usually consist mostly of bamboo, but they also can eat meat and He said in the wild they sometimes catch insects and small birds.

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Kingfisher who came to tea

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:36:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

They're among the most beautiful, and shyest, creatures in Britain – you can wait by a river for hours in the hope of glimpsing one and be rewarded with nothing more than a fleeting flash of electric blue.

So imagine John Dent’s astonishment when he wandered into his kitchen – and spotted a kingfisher calmly perched beside his teapot.

Flying visit: the kingfisher flew into Mr Dent's window and settled by the teapot

Bird watcher: Mr Dent often sees the bird in his garden but it has never come in

Mr Dent said the bird, no bigger than a sparrow, had a plentiful supply of food outside so he could not explain why it flew in.

He added: ‘He has been coming to our pond since last November. It is full of
little black carp, which are ideal food for a kingfisher. He sits on a post, catches them, brings them out and swallows them head first.’

They are certainly one of the world’s most amazing birds and getting an opportunity to see one up close like this is fantastic.’

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Wildlife and Travel Photography

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:27:56 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

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Cariboureindeer / caribou

Caribou

White tailed deer

Caribou

White tailed deerfawn

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Barred Owl

Red tailed hawk

Snowy Owl

Golden Eagle

Red Tailed HawkThis bird died.

Bald Eagle

Red Tailed HawkNew Male at Eco-Museum (April 29th)

Red Tailed Hawk

Golden Eagle

Bald Eagle

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Large dog savaged by killer squirrels

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:30:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: continues:
Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack. While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd".

"If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added. Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory. A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year. "The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added.

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Large dog savaged by killer squirrels

Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.

the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute. They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh. A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical. The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people. A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.

"They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them."

Complete Pet Health Library Cats, Dogs, Horses, Fish, Rabbits...

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:43:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: PetMD is the largest global source of pet health information in the world today. Part of a global network of veterinary professionals, PetMD’s content was created by veterinarians for consumers and veterinarians.

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Tags: pet health, pet sickness, petmd, pets, dogs, cats, birds

November by John Updike

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:13:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: yay fall!

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DLTK's Holiday Activities
A Child's Calendar
November

by John Updike

The stripped and shapely
Maple grieves
The ghosts of her
Departed leaves.

The ground is hard,
As hard as stone.
The year is old,
The birds are flown.

And yet the world,
In its distress,
Displays a certain
Loveliness---

Tags: poetry

WTH? Anting behavior in birds

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:37:13 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Freaky! Be sure to put out your butts, smokers.

Clip Source: www.stanford.edu

Many different songbird species have been observed picking up single ants or small groups and rubbing them on their feathers. Less commonly, other songbirds "ant" by spreading their wings and lying on an anthill, and squirming or otherwise stimulating the ants to swarm up among their feathers.

The purpose of anting is not well understood, but the most reasonable assumption seems to be that it is a way of acquiring the defensive secretions of ants primarily for their insecticidal, miticidal, fungicidal, or bactericidal properties and, perhaps secondarily, as a supplement to the bird's own preen oil.

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Finally, birds have also been observed to indulge in anting behaviour using objects that are not ants such as mothballs and apple peel.

Birds have also been seen to use smoking cigarette butts for anting. On other occasions both houses and trees have been set alight by birds taking live cigarettes back to their nests. No-one really knows why.

Tags: bird behavior

Oct 4th: Feast of St. Francis of Assisi - Patron saint of animals

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:47:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Born 1181/1182, Assisi, Italy
Died October 3, 1226, Assisi, Italy

..."Saint Francis, nature, and the environment
A garden statue of Francis of Assisi with birds
A garden statue of Francis of Assisi with birds

Many of the stories that surround the life of St Francis deal with his love for animals.[21]

Perhaps the most famous incident that illustrates the Saint’s humility towards nature is recounted in the 'Fioretti' (The "Little Flowers"), a collection of legends and folk-lore that sprang up after the Saint’s death.

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Feast Of St. Francis Of Assisi

St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals was born in 1182 at Assisi. He abandoned his dream of becoming a knight, donned the clothes of a poor farmhand and began caring for the sick. He founded the Franciscan Order which today has about 33,000 members. He died on 3rd October 1226.

Feast Of St. Francis Of Assisi
Italy

World Space Week -Thru Oct 10

http://www.worldspaceweek.org/

World Space Week -Thru Oct 10
UN

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Saint Francis of Assisi

He is known as the patron saint of animals and the environment, and Italy, and it is customary for Catholic churches to hold ceremonies honoring animals around his feast day of October 4.^[3]

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LOVE BIRDS

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:38:18 GMT

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LOVE BIRDS~~Madhubani Painting~~India Art Tradition

US $121.46

Birds face one another, their bodies forming a sweet blue heart. Round golden eyes express their devotion as the couple touches red beak to red beak. All is joyous color in this lovely Madhubani painting by Bharti Dayal. It is executed in vegetable dye on handmade paper in the traditional Mithila style of northern Bihar.

You Are a Target, Not a Victim

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:14:46 GMT

clipped by: Delilah1234
clipper's remarks: Fanastic, "tell it like it is" site which empowers women who think there is no hope to get out of an abusive relationship.

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Walking on Eggshells is for the Birds!
Refuse to be Abused!

That was the old days. "Victim" means you have no choice. "Victim" means you are powerless in the situation. "Victim" means that others have to help you because you can't help yourself. "Victim" means you're weak.

YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM

Tags: domestic violence, missing mothers, missing women, crime, victim, justice

Do we really have any control over our emotions?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:00:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "So, rather than a mysterious force welling up from within, Solomon views emotions as choices for which we have to take responsibility. Emotions are, in fact, strategies"
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"A thought comes when it will, not when I will." - Nietzsche

Nietzsche's quote raises an important question about both thoughts and, implicitly, about emotions. Many people would say their emotions only come when they will and not when they want. So how do thoughts and emotions interact in everyday life and in therapeutic processes like cognitive behavioural therapy? Do we really have any control over our emotions or are they things that just happen to us?

Robert Solomon is the kind of philosopher who keeps his eye on psychological research but provides a birds-eye view.

emotions are not just things that happen to us. As existentialist philosophers like Sartre point out, we have a responsibility to take ownership of our emotions

emotions are in fact choices. But, not necessarily choices in the emotional moment, but patterns of choices over a period of time. Certain ways in which you tend to view the world: your appraisals.

15 Cat Haiku Poems

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:45:25 GMT

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You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will sure show you.

You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail!
Behold, elevator butt.

The rule for today:
Touch my tail, I shred your hand.
New rule tomorrow.

In deep sleep hear sound
cat vomit hairball somewhere
will find in morning

Grace personified.
I leap into the window.
I meant to do that.

Blur of motion, then --
silence, me, a paper bag.
What is so funny?

The mighty hunter
Returns with gifts of plump birds --
your foot just squashed one

You're always typing.
Well, let's see you ignore my
sitting on your hands.

My small cardboard box.
You cannot see me if I
can just hide my head.

Terrible battle.
I fought for hours. Come and see!
What's a 'term paper?'

Small brave carnivores
Kill pine cones and mosquitoes,
Fear vacuum cleaner

I want to be close
to you. Can I fit my head
inside your armpit?

Wanna go outside.
Oh, poop! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!

Oh no! Big One
has been trapped by newspaper!
Cat to the rescue!

Dinosaur's fowl breath seals tie to birds

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:57:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Julie Steenhuysen

The discovery of air sacs in a new 10-metre-long, meat-eating dinosaur may seal the connection between birds and dinosaurs and explain how birds' unique breathing system evolved, scientists say.

A drawing of Aerosteon with the body wall removed to show a reconstruction of the lungs (red) and air sacs (other colours)

85-million-year-old meat-eater Aerosteon (Todd Marshall c 2008, courtesy of Project Exploration)

Palaeontologist Dr Paul Sereno, of the University of Chicago, says the two-legged predator, pulled from 85-million-year-old rock along the banks of Rio Colorado in Argentina's Mendoza Province, weighed as much as an elephant and likely had feathers.

But writing in the journal Public Library of Science ONE, Sereno says its method of breathing makes this dinosaur stand out.

Instead of lungs that expand and contract, Sereno thinks this beast had air sacs that worked like a bellows, blowing air into the beast's stiff lungs, much like modern birds.

When All Truth Is Relative

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:58:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Although this gambit may pay short-term political dividends, in the long run it only serves to further divide Americans into their ideological enclaves -- with conservatives getting their news from X and liberals from Y. More important, by undermining the very idea of truth, it also undermines the idea that, as a nation, we can collectively and honestly describe and find solutions to the problems we all face."

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Birds fly, tortoises crawl and politicians lie, particularly when they feel cornered. That's the natural order of things. Big deal. I don't waste too much indignation on it.

But what irks me, and should concern us all, is not the everyday disregard for this or that particular truth but the very assault on the idea that there is such a thing as truth at all.

The upshot, ironically, is that conservatives -- those who generally embrace the idea of absolutes -- have put the final nail in the coffin of truth.

But if conservatives care so much about the truth, why then do they condone the GOP's constant haranguing about media bias, with its emphasis on knee-jerk, blanket charges of partisanship rather than on arguing a case?

No doubt because it's a simpler-to-communicate message; no doubt creating boogeymen is easier and perhaps more effective with voters than arguing evidence and fact.

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