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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

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Yours truly counting birds in the Pastures of Great Bustard from the Russian made UAZ 4×4 in February 2008. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. What treats do they face?

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

10,000 Birds

I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

A total of 33,000 wild horses are degrading the environment, but around 3 million to 4 million cattle are not? Predator control (yet more killing by our government in the service of ranchers) is to blame for any overpopulation of herbivores. July 23, 2008 And no, the mustangs do not need birth control.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products. Yet not mentioned is a simple step that will go a long way toward ensuring compliance with our already lax slaughterhouse requirements: Place video cameras throughout the kill process. Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Las Vegas – Sunset Park. 04 Apr 2018. White-tufted Grebe – Rollandia rolland. Bridge on Ruta 1.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

10,000 Birds

Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Las Vegas – Sunset Park. 04 Apr 2018. White-tufted Grebe – Rollandia rolland. Bridge on Ruta 1.

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