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Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip

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Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today! • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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British Student Attacked by Portuguese Fur Shop Owner

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The post in the ANIMAL blog is in Portuguese , but here's the gist of it. There were plenty of shocked witnesses and the student is going to press charges upon her return from Xmas with her family. Tags: fur portugal. A British student studying in Porto, Portugal, was handing out leaflets in front of "Beigel," a fur shop.

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Portugal Deals with Same Issues Around Dogfighting

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This link is to ANIMAL's blog , written in Portuguese. In the Azores, where my family is from, I don't think there are any laws whatsoever. Tags: dog attacks portugal dog fighting. Essentially, it sounds like they are having the same issues as we have in the US regarding dog fights and dog attacks. I'm pretty shocked about that.

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Puppy Mill Raids in Western Washington

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We blogged about the Gold Bar, Snohomish County, raid last week). Keeping abuse in the family! Tags: animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills. Up north are Snohomish County and Skagit County where two puppy mill raids have led to the rescue of almost 600 pregnant dogs, about 80 percent of whom are pregnant. (We

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Nine-legged Plover?

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A Fascinating Blog Post Three Brave Boys Save Secretary Bird Black-backed Woodpecker to Get Protection in California? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Nine-legged Plover? Hat-tip to Mike McDowell.

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Terrifying Truth about Crow Intelligence

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I may have to quit bloggingTags: Asides • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I blame Charlie Sheen.

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