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Save the Painted Bunting, y’all: Keep wonder alive

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Here’s what we knew about the Painted Bunting up until about 2010: 1. These two points are discussed thoroughly in Tom Schulenberg’s 2009 account for Neotropical Birds Online: Painted Bunting: Distribution. So, what have we learned since 2010, and why is a Painted Bunting split up for discussion now?

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Sandpiper Species Heading Towards Extinction

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The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120-220 pairs, a decline of 88%.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

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FSD’s custom trained service dogs assist their partners in day-to-day activities providing their human companions with a greater degree of independence. The DDF works with national organizations to help promote and facilitate the role dogs play in human health, development and service. The DDF is separate from Dublin Dog Co.,

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. It is a success, despite the heavy burden of poaching and a human-tiger conflict. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

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Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. For decades, Mars Petcare – through its world-renowned WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition – has led the way in research in Human-Animal Interaction (HAI), the scientific field that studies the bond between humans and companion animals. About Mars Petcare. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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

10,000 Birds

The Accounts utilize the “user-friendly” field guide sequence proposed in “The Purpose of Field Guides: Taxonomy vs. Utility” by Howell and five other notable birding authors ( Birding , 2009^). Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Press, 1995 ^Howell, Steve N.G., 4 (July 2013), pp. 351-368.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

31, 2009 To the Editor: Let me see if I have this straight: We are now feeding our children stuff that used to be reserved for dog food, by treating it with ammonia, in order to save three cents a pound? Instead of allowing companies to find ways to turn food a dog might reject into cheap human food, shouldn’t the U.S.D.A.