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As regular readers of the CFZ Bloggo network will be aware. Jeanett Thomas (48) has been missing for over a month. Her husband, our old friend Lars Thomas, has been on Danish TV, and the story has been on the front page of the biggest Danish newspapers.
Appeals for information have proliferated across the Internet and the cryptozoological community has rallied around. All we can do is repeat that:
Lars asks: "Please, if you know, or have heard anything, let me know."
Contact Lars: lars_thomas@msn.com
Or me: jon@eclipse.co.uk
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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It looks like a common merganser duckling.
It has a sharp bill hook at the tip of its upper, which is used to catch fish. This is a highly piscivorous duck, so they have to be reared on a different diet than typical ducks. A duckling like that one will have a diet of water bugs and water beetles. (Maybe crickets and mealworms are a good substitute?)
This is a merganser hen with her ducklings. They look awfully like the duckling in the photo.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Common_merganser_small.jpg
In Europe, it is sometimes referred to as a "goosander."
If it is a different species of "fish duck," then I stand corrected, but I think it is a common merganser. That's my amateur ornithologist's opinion.
I have to admit that I thought it was a dabchick, but Jan said no. I then revised my opinion to that of a grebe, and she just laughed at me..
We took Five common merganser's in. I found them running down a highway. It took us two days to find out what they were.. It was alot of research. Before I found out what they were we lost two. They dont eat seed or duck feed. They love mealworms. The three we have left are doing great. I wanted to know how are yours doing? I thought of getting crickets for them as well. Ours are five days old now. Bless their hearts they ran at least a mile down the highway.. I know I was driving real slow following them to keep them safe. Please email me back asap. diancamd3@hotmail.com
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