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The Biggest Urban Pygmy Cormorant Roost is Finally Protected!!

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Therefore, you can observe them in their hundreds and thousands if you spend the last hour of the day observing the flight corridor and distinguishing distant black Pygmy Cormorant dots from other equally distant and black Rook and Jackdaw dots, all of them melting into tree crowns as the sunset thickens.

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ALF Continues Campaign Against UC Irvine

Critter News

From Bite Back: On July 10, 2009 3 vehicles and the home of a UC Irvine vivisector were hit by the ALF. 1 of his cars (the fanciest of the 4 in front) was doused with paint stripper. 2 others had red paint poured all over them.

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Machi the Whimbrel Gunned Down by Hunters

10,000 Birds

Suggestions to start a campaign to protect shorebirds from hunters as they migrate through the Caribbean would be appreciated in the comments. Machi getting fitted with transmitter in 2009. But the toll the “shooting swamps&# take on the shorebirds of the Americas is huge and the practice must be stopped. … a.

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Twitching

10,000 Birds

Oddly enough, the Common Redpoll ( Acanthis flammea ), my first ever twitch back in the winter of 2009, was spotted within a mile or so from the Snow Bunting on the same road in McArthur. The Snow Bunting ( Plectrophenax rustica ) in the two photos above was found less than 60 miles from my home. A very rare find in Northern California.

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Watch for Shorebirds with Colored Flags!

10,000 Birds

As shorebirds look for suitable sites to spend up to 9 months in their wintering grounds, biologists with the Pan-American Shorebird Banding Program also start preparing for a new banding campaign. Since the website’s launch in May 2009, an additional 5,300 banding records and over 30,500 resighting records have been entered!

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Quash the Squash

4 The Love Of Animals

The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. If you live in the UK, please urge Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Animal Welfare, to make the right choice for UK chickens and quash the squash, by sending an email via our campaign website at Quash the Squash.

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The Shelter Pet Project

4 The Love Of Animals

This new campaign, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund, and the Ad Council, hopes to reverse this trend and find homes for these homeless, lovable pets. The campaign has one unified goal, to increase pet adoption. The Shelter Pet Project originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on October 1, 2009.

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