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Bird Identification – Black-crowned Night Heron – Quawk – Qua Bird When the night herons return to us from the South in April, they go straight to the home of their ancestors, to which they are devotedly attached—rickety, ramshackle heronries, mere bundles of sticks in the tops of trees in some swamp—and begin at once [...]

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Jokes From:www.jokes.net/hunternogun.htm There’s this guy who shows up at a cabin where these hunters have gathered to hunt bear. Only he shows up without a gun. The other hunters are very curious. “How you gonna get a bear without a gun?” they ask. “Do you have a knife?” “No,” says the guy. “Do you have [...]

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The Higg-Piggy You put your right hoof in; You put your right hoof out; You put your right hoof in and you shake it all about. You do the Higgy-Piggy, And you turn yourself around, That’s what it’s all about! Oink!

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Bird Identification – Meadowlark – Old-field Lark – Meadow Starling Every farmer’s boy knows his father’s friend, the meadowlark, the brownish, mottled bird, larger than a robin, with a lovely yellow breast and black crescent on it, that keeps well hidden in the grass of the meadows or grain fields. Of course he knows, too, [...]

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Bird Identification – The White-eyed Vireo It is not often that you can get close enough to any bird to see the white of his eyes, but the brighter olive green of this vivacious little white-eyed vireo’s upper parts, his white breast, faintly washed with yellow on the sides, and the two yellowish white bars [...]

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Bird Identification – Woodcock – Blind, Wall-eyed, Mud, Bigheaded, Wood, And Whistling Snipe – Bog-sucker – Bogbird – Timber Doodle Whenever you see little groups of clean-cut holes dotted over the earth in low, wet ground, you may know that either the woodcock or Wilson’s snipe has been there probing for worms. Not even the [...]

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The Giant Panda is only found in China and Japan due to its large supplie of Bamboo, Pandas Though belonging to the order Carnivora family, the panda has a diet which is 99 percent bamboo. Pandas may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, bananas and small insect found on [...]

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Bird Identification – Rails Rails are such shy, skulking hiders among the tall marsh grasses that “every child” need never hope to know them all; but a few members of the family that are both abundant and noisy, may be readily recognised by their voices alone. All rails prefer to escape from an intruder through [...]

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Bird Identification – Red-shouldered Hawk – Hen Hawk – Chicken Hawk – Winter Hawk Let any one say “Hawk” to the average farmer and he looks for his gun. For many years it was supposed that every member of the hawk family was a villain and fair game, but the white searchlight of science shows [...]

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Bird Identification – Wild Ducks Birds that spend their summers for the most part north of the United States and travel past us faster than the fastest automobile racer or locomotive—and an hundred miles an hour is not an uncommon speed for ducks to fly—need have little to fear, you might suppose. But so mercilessly [...]

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