For Happiness, Go to the Birds; for Truth, Try the Cats
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The new production of Maeterlinckâs play at Urban Stages suffers from common genre maladies like heavy-handed messages, overly black-and-white plot elements and unimaginative fantastical elements.
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By Victoria Pierce Daily Herald Correspondent  With big yards, beautiful homes, good schools and plenty of restaurants and other amenities nearby, you'd think people in the suburbs would be happy all the time.
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Birdman of Belair Mathew Tekulsky waxes on the serendipitous moments when birds and timing alight together for memorable photographs.
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NEW YORK - A hawk down in midtown Manhattan? Another bird of prey grounded across town? A sheep loose in the Bronx? It wasn't shear fantasy. The odd series of animal adventures began 10 a.m.
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[World News]: Washington, Dec 14 : A new futuristic study by researchers at the University of Stanford is predicting that by the time the next century rolls around, a number of bird species that we take for granted today will become mere pictures in bird
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A fascinating new study in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology looks at the benefits of huddling vs. solitude, comparing strategies used by striped skunks to get through long, cold winters in northern climates.
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Birding columnist Mathew Tekulsky considers the joys of sparrows wintering in his California backyard.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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They have a fondness for napping and an uncanny nose for the next meal, but scientists have discovered that despite their apparently cushy lifestyle cats are as stressed as we are.
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If you're thinking about getting a cat -- or want to know more about the one you've got -- the new book The Cat Bible: Everything Your Cat Expects You to Know is an excellent place to start. Author Tracie Hotchner shares some secrets
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jun. 17--FLORIDA CITY, Fla. -- The Everglades can be a surprisingly noisy place.   There were the strange, catlike sounds from the small heron sitting in a tree.
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See whether these stories make you laugh or cry.
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TWITCHERS should book their plane tickets as soon as possible. Wildlife experts yesterday claimed to have discovered a new species of bird in the Philippines. But they immediately warned that the flightless Calayan rail could be driven to extinction by ...
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Not far from Don's Body Shop and the Alcove Bar is a peaceful, green world that ducks, bald eagles and shorebirds call home.
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If it seems quiet in your back yard these days, it&#39;s probably because so many species of birds have flown the coop, bound south on their migratory journeys.
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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At the Brookfield Zoo, cicadas are a lot more than just really noisy insects: They're delicious. These days, a host of animals from bearded dragon lizards to African wild dogs to white-crested laughing thrush birds are enjoying cicadas.