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According to their Kind

10,000 Birds

I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. Way, way back, during our inuagural game of Gone Birding , my friend Molly developed a theory of birds. There were, in her book, three kinds: Owls, Pigeons, and Ducks. water birds (ducks!)

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

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" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. If you want to address the problem, you do something about the people abandoning and neglecting horses. Financially).

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Fixing a Hole: The Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch Saga Begins

10,000 Birds

It has snowed in Montana, it has snowed at the Olde Homestead, and I have commenced my annual Andy Rooney-like wails of anguish about the earlier and earlier appearance of holiday decorations in stores. So, winter is very nearly upon us, and no, I never did find a Yellow-headed Blackbird.

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