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New Iberia Inspection Documents Available

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What the documents show # A USDA inspection on Feb. A May 23, 2007, USDA inspection revealed several problems with drainage and waste disposal operations, and peeling paint in primate housing areas. # I found them here. 18 focusing on allegations by Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) found the center in compliance. #

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part III (Finances)

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Note that I only have access to public documents, and I am not accountant. In particular, it appears that expenses were increased in response to what turned out to be a one-year revenue spike in 2007. One cause of the post-2007 revenue decline may have been the Great Recession.

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What Now?

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As my long-time fans may remember, back in 2007 – which is to say, more than a decade ago, and YES I am dying a little inside at that realization – I dipped on the Coney Island Creek Western Reef Heron , a major rarity from another continent that was seen by pretty much every other birder on the eastern seaboard. Get a Ph.d.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Appendix A lists “Rare Migrants and Vagrants,” 81 species, including birds for which there are no documented records, but which are listed in the literature or eBird. I’m not saying this is good or bad, I do appreciate the careful documentation of the taxonomic notes and other materials. © 2003 text H.

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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

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Animal welfare watchdog group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN), has released documents which, it claims, provide evidence that CRO MPI Research has been operating in violation of the US Animal Welfare Act. They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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He started working on Birds and People in January 2007, according to the book’s web site, and the project ultimately took six years. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife. What to do?

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