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    NRC 261 Exam 2 Study Guide

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    emigrants to sink areas that are more heavily harvested Why are agricultural fields a potential ecological trap for nesting grassland bird species? -mowing of the fields destroys nesting sites of birds Chapter 12 – Water and other Welfare Factors Birds don’t have sweat glands - how do they "offload" excessive heat via water (i.e.‚ evaporative heat loss)? -birds lose excess body heat by evaporation of water from the respiratory tract and skin -> panting and gular fluttering are commonly

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    Sanctuary Description

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    Eastern Shore is to provide a home for chickens who already exist‚ rather than adding to the population and thus diminishing our capacity to adopt more birds. For this reason we do not allow our hens to hatch their eggs in the spring and early summer as they would otherwise do‚ given their association with the roosters in our yard. All of our birds have been adopted from situations of abandonment or abuse‚ or else they were no longer wanted or able to be cared for by their previous owners. Our two-acre

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    Bukidnon Deer Park and Wildlife Center Reaction Paper On August 26‚ 2012 I visited the Bukidnon Deer Park and Wildlife Center located at San Miguel‚ Maramag‚ Bukidnon. The purpose of the trip was to look at some fascinating wild animals that live from different parts of the world and to learn more about them. The first animals I visited were the mammals. Mammals are class of warm-blooded vertebrate animals that have‚ in the female‚ milk-secreting organs for feeding the young. The animals available

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    The Ugly Duckling

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    THE UGLY DUCKLING  CHARACTERS: Narrator Mother Duck 6 Brothers Pig‚ Cow‚ Goat Ugly Duckling Birds Geese Old Woman Hen Farmer Swans Children SCRIPT: Narrator: Once upon a time on an old farm‚ there was a duck family‚ and Mother Duck had been sitting on a clutch of new eggs. Mother Duck: It was about time that my eggs hatch! … 1‚2‚3‚4‚5‚6 ducklings I have! Narrator: But something was not right. Mother Duck: Mmmm… that egg didn’t hatch‚ and it is bigger than the rest… I don`t

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    St Louis Zoo is a very large zoo. It has different sections that have the animals that come from around the same places and are close to each other. So looking around it seems like you may be looking around in a different country. It is made to look like the wilderness. The enclosures look they the country of origin the animals come from. It is fun to see where the animals are from and get an idea of what it looks like. The penguin and puffin exhibit is in a zigzag that you go around to see them

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    Jivaro Indians

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    reaches down below the knees. A common feature of male attire is the etsemat‚ a woven band decorated with feathers that is worn around the head. Ceremonial dress is more elaborate. Men paint their faces with black and red dyes. An ornament made of bird bones is wrapped around the shoulders‚ signifying the possession of an arutam soul and the spiritual power it provides. Here recently‚ the Jivaro are acquiring Western clothing. These manufactured clothes are often used for special occasions such as

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    Blue Jay Observation

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    The Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) The blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) belongs to the family Corvidae and the order Passeriformes (Cornell University‚ 2015). It is one of the most common birds to be sighted in the United States. It has a range that covers about 2/3 of North America (Johnson‚ 2011). Blue Jays tend to migrate only over short distances‚ and have never been observed anywhere south of the United States. Given their wide distribution pattern‚ many observations relating to their life history

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    colder. And in the church while the priest was giving an important religious speech people usually listen and the room is quiet but actually no one was hearing him from people’s coughing because they were sick and that drowned his voice. Also the birds were sad and not moving in the snow as if they were nesting‚ And Marian has got a cold from this horrible winter .Therefore her nose is red and soft.  Forth Stanza:-  In winter people usually prepare warmed food .So they prepared some roasted and

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    Ben Sheldahl Pogreba AP Language 1/3/14 Meere Men? Or be we Bird-Gods? “A-well-a‚ birdbirdbird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ don’t you know about the bird Well‚ everybody’s talking about the bird A-well-a‚ birdbird‚ b-bird’s the word A-well-a‚ bird” These sage words from “The Trashmen” hint at the fragility of the bird species‚ as well as emphasizing the necessity of birds in not just our physical lives‚ but our pop culture. In this excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ Rachel Carson

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    The Karnala Bird Sanctuary is located in Panvel Taluka of Raigad District‚ outside Mumbai‚ India near Matheran and Karjat. The sanctuary is quite small with an area of 12.11 square kilometres but along with the Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Tungareshwar sanctuary is one of the few sanctuaries to be within reach of the city of Mumbai. Contents   [hide]  1 Location 2 Birds 3 Gallery 4 External links Location[edit] The sanctuary is centered around the historic Karnala Fort and lies just off

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