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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

A lot of this material is in her earlier book, Condors in Canyon Country, published by the Grand Canyon Association in 2007, now out-of-print (though available used). She also joyfully relates seeing through her scope “the first wild-hatched condor nestling in recorded Arizona history” (p.

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A special Pied Oystercatcher

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On July 1st 2007 an egg was laid by a Pied Oystercatcher that was known to be an adult in 2002 and had been banded in nearby Roebuck Bay. The parents spent several weeks transporting food to the chick that remained after losing one shortly after it hatched. The family stayed in the area and then left in late November.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Each one of these animals suffered extreme cruel and inhumane conditions in the transportation and slaughter process. Surely a nation and a national press that can expend so much attention on the life and death of one racehorse should be able to muster the compassion to pass legislation that would end this cruelty.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The transport and subsequent slaughter of these animals is brutal. John Spratt Washington, March 6, 2007 The facts are these: ¶Most horses that end up slaughtered are bought by buyers acting on behalf of slaughterhouses. They are often crammed into trucks built for cattle and pigs and subjected to starvation, exposure and abuse.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

If you do view the documentary, I suspect that you will agree that "raising," transporting and slaughtering animals in this way is, indeed, prima facie wrong and ought not be supported, absent a very compelling reason for doing so.] The study was published in the December 2007 issue of the Public Library of Science’s journal PLOS Medicine.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. The political and legislative history and the role played by an upper-class, reserved Republican Senator from Connecticut is not.