Critter News

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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Utah Animal Research PETA Stray 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

Write the authors: Near the border of Utah and Arizona there is a transition to a second, deeply divergent mitochondrial DNA clade (Brelsford et al. 2011), which was previously assumed to be geographically restricted to Mexico in the black-fronted warbler. ” If they are right, then there apparently aren’t prezygotic barriers (e.g.,

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This Last Weekend of November 2009? Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. Fortunately, there are some people working to protect the Scarlet Macaws of Honduras. What is the National Bird of Denmark? The proposal from U.S.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 153

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet? Licking Clay’ Text and Photographs copyright T.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Redgannet (the blog) fledged in February 2009 and the 100th post was published as he was invited to become a beat writer for 10,000 Birds. Feeling lazy, or I would do the research myself.) Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Utah Birders has a copy of Hawks at a Distance to give away. How do we know this? The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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