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Help the Almagordo Chimpanzees

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Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".

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Australian Painted Snipe

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The Painted Snipe Project was established in 2001 to address the lack of knowledge on the species. It is such a distinct bird you could not mistake it for anything else and I hope that you all one day have a chance to experience your own Australian Painted Snipe !

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

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Evidence notwithstanding, she was not credited with the sighting due to the earlier declaration of extinction, but she so strongly maintained she’d witnessed the close proximity of a male passenger that she wrote an essay called “The Last Passenger Pigeon” in which she described her experience. Tice (July 2001).

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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So, I was very excited when I heard that Rick Wright was writing a book about sparrows, the first treatment of North American sparrows since 2001, possibly the first book about sparrows of North America, depending on your definition of that geographic area. He has an academic background in German and medieval studies, including a Ph.D.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. I ache that I will never see what the photographer has seen, but hope that maybe if I try hard enough I will see some kind of echo of this experience in the image.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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2001), before the videos and web sites, there was Hawks in Flight: the Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors by Pete Dunne, David Sibley and Clay Sutton. The excellence of Hawks in Flight is rooted in the expertise, experience and skills of all three authors. Published in 1988, Hawks in Flight was unique for its time.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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et al 2001. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. Of Plymouth Plantation. Crawford, R.D. Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America. 41 (extra) 307–314. Genetic variation across the historical range of the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). 11(4):643–57. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Thornton, E.,

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