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    gull species?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKI9NqRJkb4 is this a western gull?
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    Who said owls dont hunt mink?

    A very healthy big male minK! WOW http://www.flickr.com/photos/31780320@N03/8481814275/ http://www.eyesonafrica.net/updates/upd_imgs12/12May-chitnew2.jpg https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKKPANrViLCyr8xkuHnhy1DyKm3otu3rmHcF_xDTidhKgL0Hqz or larger more powerful...
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    little fulmars ruling the ocean

    Most people don't believe how easy fulmars bully around bonxies until they see it on video or pictures http://icarusowen.com/crawton-rpsb-reserve-great-skua-versus-fulmar/ It must just be the oil they spit though that pacifies other birds. giant petrels can do it also but I never...
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    Help poor gull found in a new york parking lot

    Upstate new york area (wolfe island & thousand islands canada) my friend sent me these pix he said it was smaller than a crow but sure does not look it to me...
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    hierarchy of the feeding stations?

    when i put out all sorts of stuff to feed the birds i find grackles rule but dont go much. But the starlings really take it over and bully all the birds even the blue jay will back down from them. Is it like that there also? Anyone have hierarchy? if so what order? The mocking birds cant eat...
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    Hi not new but here i am

    Hello I am from ontario. But lived in america for a bit also. I just started studying at penn foster vet tech program. I love all animals does not matter domestic, rats, snakes, scorpions, bats, I do not care to me I love them all. AFter I graduate I hope get to work with vultures in india...
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    The king of birds bald eagle?

    I got to see a few now that they are much more common. Anyone else notice how much more common they are in ontario? seeing a bald eagle now is not that rare. Seeing ravens now is not rare either. 10 years ago it is like they did not exist now they are kind of common. Almost like caspian terns. I...
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    does any BOP take adult mink? that you know of?

    I can't believe all the birds and the sizes mink will attack? has anyone seen a bird prey on an adult mink? Or even a bird that could fend off a mink? Only one bird in history I have ever sseen or even heard of fighting off mink and driving it off was common loons. Other than that minks kill...
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    what on earth did this? HORROR!

    Every year a pair of starlings nests in a hole on the roof of a tiny over pass in my yard. It is just a lil area that you can sit under incase you want to be away from the sun light or rain. Well the other day i saw 3 of their chicks no feathers on them about 20 yards away on the pavement...
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    Dead lion who can help?

    On my way back from protection training right before the gan casino by the cement rampart I saw a dead puma. I went by a second time to make sure it was a puma and i was not seeing things. I went home and i contacted the foundation of eastern cougars etc.. I was hoping they would pick it up and...
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    starlings that aggressive?

    starlings not native here, people say they are so aggressive they nest in my dogs play house. THey dont defend their eggs or chicks though from anything. They dont mob or anything either. I look up and see red wing black birds, blue jays, thrashers, king birds, grackles giving every predator...
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    birds mauling snakes?

    In real life i saw some crows attacking a rat snake i did not get to film it but I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF0PrS50gCg Anyone see stuff like this? Birds attacking really large snakes the rat snake had to be five feet. I think they were trying to kill it. They may have...
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    species of eagle?

    http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/135555287-imperial-eagles-fighting-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=gUa1FSOjnQ4ZxiPOQygx14nOg8KKv2qJxllYrwJDJPg9KuhEu7dQC70RB2ieiB1p is the dark one a steppe eagle?
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    griffon vultures

    Someone let me know are there only 2 vultures in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czatw9Cpmxs one is a euro griffon the other species is a rupp griffon? Also are the euro girffons immatures?
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    taken near vancouver garbage dump

    http://imgur.com/a/eRCRU by a friend i was told it was very fast an d was doing insane acrobatics was told it was much bigger than the ravens also? any idea?
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    how are mallards so successful?

    In an area full of predators for such a small duck? Are they using canada geese to protect them? I saw a canada geese beat up red fox and almost kill a blue heron. The geese let the mallards stay around them. Is this what mallards use to keep them safe? Its just that there is so many of them...
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    great skua killed an adult ganet

    ok I know that great skuas kill herring gulls and LBB gulls and shags, but to kill an adult gannet? WOW i am shocked! http://wildshots.photoshelter.com/image/I0000QVYmEro8kDA The larger southern skua does not go after birds this large and is sometimes killed by johnny rooks and giant...
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    common raven in kingston ontario woods

    I saw a common raven in kingston ontario woods. It was just soaring around. It was huge. The way i knew it was a raven was that tail plus its huge size. At first i thought it might have been a bald eagle out in the open but i got a closer look and it was a raven. I was shocked I did not think...
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    caracara kills adult brown skua!

    i didnt think such a thing would ever happen wow full story and image http://www.jandcimages.com/photo_8587077.html The skua is larger than the rook
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    great black backed gull kills a healthy pom skua and goose?

    http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/news-and-comment/pom-skuas-beware looks like the gbb gull killed a healthy pom skua? wow A biologist this summer told me he saw a gbb gull kill an adult canada goose
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    can a flamingo hurt a person?

    at the sacramento zoo the tallest stand more than 5 foot five inches and these are not the tallest in the world they are a sub species of greater but still not the tallest sub species the flamingo care takeis five five and says the taller ones are taller than her they look intimidating i wonder...
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    has anyone seen or heard of gulls or crovids taking adult squirrels

    I see grey squirrels chasing ring billed gulls and common crows every day ANd i saw western gulls and ground squirrels side by side in california when i was bird watching in MONt bay but then i saw this picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/goingslo/4407119730/ anyone know the species of...
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    is this a california gull?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTKoMa7bUw&feature=mh_lolz&list=FL6TiBQ3pf8I7SkYDqi9q5FQ any ideas? ALso any ideas on what it is doing ?
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    mammals reptiles and other birds who help birds

    I was watching a show and was so shocking to see the various species of reptiles , mammals and birds that help other birds survival or these birds depend on these other animals for suvival did you guys know that the most powerful biggest snake with venom is actualy every birds best firend...
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    species of sea gull?

    also what are the duck species? I am guess mallard in both clips but can someone verify? that eat this duck in first clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz8317JZHuk and the second clip sea gull was just about killed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68dRNZV0nW0
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