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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. The rivers here will give you a chance to find Ibisbill , White-capped and Plumbeous Water Redstarts , Small Pratincoles and forktails.

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Activists in Canada Found Not Guilty of Getting to Close to Seal Slaughter

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A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. That's good news.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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(One other irony in this regard is this: there is some evidence that migrating birds are benefited by the “rest stops” offered by oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, according to another good book on migration, Miyoko Chu’s 2006 Songbird Journeys. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too.

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Will parrots and falcons soon be moved around in your field guide?

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Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). Interestingly, Proposal 491 didn’t initially present any new information, citing studies from 2006 and 2008. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J.

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What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of August 2010) Commence Project FeederWatch 2006 Best Bird of the Weekend (Halloween Edition) Discerning Distant Ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us.Or

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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This amount is considerably less than the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers annually. In many situations, the number of animals removed amounts to less than 1 percent of their total population.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why.

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