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DeMuth Agrees to Plea Bargain

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Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota charged last year with felony conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act agreed yesterday to a plea bargain. Instead, DeMuth will plead guilty to conspiring to damage a Minnesota company that breeds ferrets. From the Science Insider.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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There was a man in Minnesota who was recently charged with a misdemeanor for violating Bloomington’s city code on feeding wildlife because he was scattering seed on the ground and he wasn’t just scattering a few handfuls, witnesses had video of him dumping bags out, even after being warned about the ordinance. She added more corn.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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Press in 2009), active participation in the Dragonfly Society of the Americas and leading dragonfly trips to Costa Rica and, hopefully this summer, Panama. The Index is much improved over the 2009 western book, with larger type and an expansion of how names are listed. This probably sounds nitpicky.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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in ecology from the University of Minnesota and has lived in Monteverde, Costa Rica since 1972. I’ve known of Dennis Paulson’s work for years. He’s extraordinarily generous with his time and has helped me and many other odonate novices identify odonates. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011)

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Bird Watchers and Technology A Way of Jungle Birding A Brief Interview with Al Levantin Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of August 2009) About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Our Favorite Bird Books of 2023

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We’ve gotten them all—field guides to foreign countries; memoirs and big year books; narratives about ornithological research, then and now; identification guides on terns and flycatchers; birding guides to birdy areas of northern North America (Ontario and Minnesota); books about owls and penguins; and more.

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Road Eagles

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But of course, some eagles don’t do that in a given year, and here in central Minnesota, it seems that eagles have been wintering more and more commonly. As it happens, in May of 2009, I got a shot of that fire while driving by, showing the tree the eagles have subsequently nested in: Natural selection can be hard on a bird.

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