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Almost One-Third of Japanese Whale Kill Was Pregnant

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Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. The Japanese government's "Cruise Report" gives gruesome details on the foetuses killed. From Wildlife Extra. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.

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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

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Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! In January 2008, a day after hurricane force winds raked the coast of Northern California, another juvenile Magnificent Frigatebird turned up in the small town of Healdsburg, on the Russian River, hundreds of miles north of where frigatebirds are found.

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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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Tricolored Blackbird in Trouble in California

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.” Blackbirds, among other species, are also killed every year for consuming sunflower seeds mostly in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Therefore the actual numbers of birds killed are grossly underestimated. See Birdchick’s post here. The California population estimate derived from the Survey was 145,000 birds. v=3rwi0SF8r8o.

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Finally!

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I’ve lived in Queens since March of 2008. Seth was probably ready to kill me and leave my body in the pond. Over three hundred species of birds have crossed my field of view in Queens in that time including thirty-eight thirty-nine species of shorebird. Why is that thirty-eight crossed out? Buffies are a very fine shorebird.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain

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I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009. From the BBC News. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire.

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