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

10,000 Birds

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. Fantasy is the key word here.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. He started working on Birds and People in January 2007, according to the book’s web site, and the project ultimately took six years. And, that just isn’t documented in scientific papers.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. He describes the change model he was using as follows: From my orientation, background, and bias, scholarly work must come first to document and establish a need for change.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds).

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Tails of Aloha

4 The Love Of Animals

We were fully funded by our founder from 1994-2007. Tails Of Aloha is an all volunteer Animal Assisted Therapy Organization, located on Oahu in the state of Hawaii, with animals on all of the major Hawaiian Islands. Tails of Aloha was established in 1994 and received its Non-Profit designation in October 2008.

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

Animal Ethics

that slaughters horses for human consumption. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., you might wonder how it is that Cavel has been able to brutally slaughter horses for human consumption right here in the U.S. One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S.,

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. A 2007 genetic review of pigeons and doves ( Pereira et al.