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Cape May Warbler is a Bad Name and Should be Replaced

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A thrill to see, especially to see well, the Cape May Warbler is most commonly spotted as a passage migrant or as a winter resident, considering that its breeding area is the spruce-fir forests of Canada and some of the northernmost parts of the United States. Well, no more! Or, at least, pointing out some names that suck.)

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Russia Bans Canadian Seal Imports!

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Russia and two of its neighbours have informed the World Trade Organization that they are banning the import and export of harp seal pelts – a move that animal-rights activists are celebrating as the death knell of Canada’s commercial seal industry. Russia has been the biggest market for the Canadian seal fur industry.

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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The Thing About Colombia

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Colombia wants to go big into the birding travel industry, with appropriate government backing of bird lodges and guides and the infrastructure needed to get people from the US and Canada and Europe right in front of some of the most incredible birds in the tropics.

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Gyr fodder

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A pair of Arctic Hare, the one on the right has its photo displayed on an aircraft tail fin up here. Some of our hare are urban dwellers, this one in the industrial section at the edge of town. Now Arctic Hare, a favoured prey item of Gyrfalcons , are no slouches in the size department themselves. Peter Cottontails these are not.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California. GUIDE COVERAGE.

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Birding in a Hellmouth

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There were opportunities to go to far flung places like the islands of the Pacific or the coast of Canada or the Yorkshire Dales… Anyway, as I was obsessed by Africa at the time, I leapt at the opportunity to go to Namibia to collect samples of bat DNA for a biogeography project. Oh, and horrifying insect things were everywhere.

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