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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

They’re all named for livestock. Following a detour to Harvard Law School, he took the Ph.D. Now a Senior Leader with WINGS, Rick was a department editor at Birding from 2004 to 2008, editor of Winging It from 2005 to 2007 and currently writes Aimophila Adventures. Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of July 2008?

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services shows that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing problems, and not predation. The aerial gunning program has killed at least 10 agents and injured 28 more.

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

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Treaties trump state laws. He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming.