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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.

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Endangered Species Act: Delisting the Black-capped Vireo?

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FWS issued a recovery plan in 1991 and a five-year review that proposed downlisting to “threatened” in 2007. The proposed rule is here and virtually all relevant documents, including all of the supporting scientific literature, can be found here.

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Bird Litigation: Wind Turbine Near Ottawa NWR

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The explanation begins with looking carefully at a legal document, which can be more interesting than it sounds. Note that this is a document drafted by the plaintiffs (ABC and BSBO): it is designed to state the case factually but persuasively. miles from Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge” in an “area of documented bird concentration.”

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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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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. 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.

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

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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

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I do need to note that a rare error crops up here–LISTSERV is not a generic electronic bulletin board, it is a propriety product owned by a company and the use of the term is protected by trademark law. ” (basic points, like bird names, plumage differences); “After the Spark” (birdsong and migration); “Now What?”

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