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How To Make Bird Feeders Safe From Hawks
Hawks need to eat too, but if you don’t want your feeder area to become a hawk buffet, you can encourage them to hunt somewhere else The easiest way to recognize an accipiter is by its long narrow tail. This Cooper’s Hawk is a juvenile, as shown by its dark, streaky breast plumage. (Photo by…
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Oregon’s Ancient Coyote Heritage
by Gayle Highpine Coyotes have lived in every part of Oregon since time immemorial. How did the idea come about that coyotes are not native to Oregon? Throughout the state of Oregon, billboards display the logo of Spirit Mountain Casino, which is run by the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. Over thirty tribes and bands…
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Cats, Birds, and Gratitude to Coyotes
by Gayle Highpine Cats are the number one human cause of bird deaths — more than all other causes (window strikes, vehicle strikes, pesticides, power lines, etc) put together . Cats are a major factor in the decline of North American songbird populations. If not for coyotes, the impact of this invasive species would be…
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About the author
Gayle Highpine is a retired teacher. She lives on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, with her husband, blues/jazz guitarist/bassist John Paulus. She has no scientific credentials or any other special qualifications for talking about birds, but the birds in her yard have taught her many things. She hopes to demonstrate that anyone, even a kid,…
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Why Do Birds Display?
by Gayle Highpine The reason why male birds display to court females — even if their displays hurt their ability to survive — has long been a scientific mystery. The answer may turn out to be simple. In mating season, male birds compete in contests. The contest can be about songs or colors. They can…
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The few stars left below the seaward frown of the vault shine feebly as into the mouth of a black cavern.
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Meantime Giorgio, with tranquil movements, had been unfastening the door; the flood of light fell on Signora Teresa, with her two girls gathered to her side, a picturesque woman in a pose of maternal exaltation. Behind her the wall was dazzlingly white, and the crude colours of the Garibaldi lithograph paled in the sunshine. Old…
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The only sign of commercial activity within the harbour, visible from the beach of the Great Isabel, is the square blunt end of the wooden jetty which the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (the O.S.N. of familiar speech) had thrown over the shallow part of the bay soon after they had resolved to make of Sulaco…
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It might have been said that there he was only protecting his own. From the first he had been admitted to live in the intimacy of the family of the hotel-keeper who was a countryman of his. Old Giorgio Viola, a Genoese with a shaggy white leonine head—often called simply “the Garibaldino” (as Mohammedans are…
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