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	<title>Fat Finch--Birds, Birding &#38; Blogging</title>
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	<description>A blog for bird watchers, bird feeding and birding</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pigeon Power Napping</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/pigeon-power-napping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bird brains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bird sleep]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Napping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Working in a nap can be difficult for birds as well as humans. And naps are important.  Even a six minute nap improves a human’s memory. Pigeons need naps too but often miss them.  A pigeon can’t take a power nap if there is a predator in the area.  But they take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Life</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/one-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh go ahead.  Skip reading today&#8217;s entry and go outside.  Which is what we did rather than writing today&#8217;s post.
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		<title>The Great Sparrow Wars</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/the-great-sparrow-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China's Great Sparrow War]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[House Sparrow]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tree Sparrow]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Unintended consequencesw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chairman Mao was not the world’s finest naturalist.  But he was a man of action.  Thinking that four kinds of pests were hindering his “Great Leap Forward” he decided to eradicate them all.  Rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows all had to go.  Sparrows earned Mao’s enmity because they eat grain and [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Chinese Poster of The Great Sparrow War</media:title>
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		<title>Bird Watching Aptitude Test</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/bird-watching-aptitude-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re sometimes asked, &#8220;What does it take to be a good birdwatcher?&#8221;  Or sometimes an Englishman will ask, &#8220;What does it take to be a good twitcher?&#8221;  Actually, birding doesn&#8217;t take much.  A desire to be outdoors, suitable clothing, a pair of binoculars and a good field guide is about all that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White-wing Doves Evolving</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/white-wing-doves-evolving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fatfinch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Border Collies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ponds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[White-wing Doves]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is rare for a being which is deeply stupid to know it is deeply stupid and want to be smarter.  But that dissatisfaction must be how life evolves from lower to higher states of consciousness.  White-wing Doves are a case in point.
We’ve watched them try to figure out how to eat bird [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Baby Roadrunner</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/a-new-baby-roadrunner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chuck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[roadrunner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Baby Roadrunner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nature is abundant.  As an eloquent friend says, it is “wildly resilient.” Or as they used to say in France, “The King is dead!  Long live the King!” (Later, they got rid of the King so the metaphor only goes so far. Political systems don’t last as long as evolution.)
We lost a baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passeriformia Dreaming</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/passeriformia-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fatfinch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bird brains]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dreaming]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dreaming Birds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you go to sleep tonight maybe you’ll be like Hemingway’s old man and dream about the lions.  Or the snakes. Or being late for a plane. Or flying without an airplane.  Or flunking a test.  Or any of a multitude of other dreams.  But you will dream.
Nobody knows for sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falconry in Australia</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/falconry-in-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fatfinch</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Falcons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Falconry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/?p=437</guid>
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		<title>Baby Roadrunner -RIP</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/baby-roadrunner-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birding]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bird rescue]]></category>

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Our sad duty today is to tell you that our [the] baby roadrunner has died.  He [or she] was wounded on the back leg.  We can’t tell whether by a cat or a fence or some other accident.  For a day and a night, he hopped around on his good leg in our enclosed front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ostriches in Court</title>
		<link>http://fatfinch.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/ostriches-in-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conrad Black]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ostrich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not often do judges get the chance to defend ostriches, but it does happen.
Conrad Black was the CEO of an American corporation (Hollinger) which owned many newspapers around the world.  Hollinger was controlled by another corporation (Ravelston) in which Black owned the majority of the stock.  By this device, Black controlled Hollinger which [...]]]></description>
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