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A parody of the official songs in use by the various branches of the United States military. Lehrer explains that the Army "didn't have no official song" when he started basic training; he wrote this one in an attempt to remedy the situation. (The branch adopted "The Army Goes Rolling Along" as its song in 1956, one year after Lehrer enlisted ...
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA), codified at 16 U.S.C. §§ 703–712 (although §709 is omitted), is a United States federal law, first enacted in 1918 to implement the convention for the protection of migratory birds between the United States and Canada. [1]
The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 668-668d) is a United States federal statute that protects two species of eagle.The bald eagle was chosen as a national emblem of the United States by the Continental Congress of 1782 and was given legal protection by the Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940.
Feeding pigeons may seem harmless enough, but that's not the way the government of Venice sees it. It's illegal to give pigeons birdseed in this historic city, and vendors selling food for the ...
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In broken-wing displays, birds that are at the nest walk away from it with wings quivering so as to appear as an easy target for a predator. [ 13 ] [ 25 ] Such injury-feigning displays are particularly well known in nesting waders and plovers , but also have been documented in other species, including snowy owls, [ 20 ] the alpine accentor ...
The bald eagle, once on the brink of extinction, has made a "remarkable" comeback in recent years, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The mountain bluebird is the state bird of Idaho. This list of birds of Idaho includes species documented in the U.S. state of Idaho and accepted by the Idaho Bird Records Committee (IBRC). As of January 2022, there were 433 species on the official list. One additional species is considered hypothetical. Of the 433, 180 are review species in part or all of the state.(see note) [notes 1] Eight ...