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Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. This quote perfectly sums up the state of the Snowy Owl/birding ethics discussion. This is what most of the controversy is about. 1999, Holt et al.

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). The latest volume on the subject is Montgomery’s The Hawk’s Way: Encounters With Fierce Beauty.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Cochran followed thrushes for 34 years and is now considered one of the founders of wildlife telemetry (instead of patenting his radio transmitters, he gave away his knowledge), but was a scientific outsider for much of his life. Schulman, 2010. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J. banding station, 2020. NOT IN THE BOOK.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

Critter News

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Our hope is that these talented participants will help pave the way for a more ethical fashion industry in the future.”

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On Foundation Beyond Belief

Animal Person

For the first quarter of 2010, Wildlife Trust is the beneficiary. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Religion. On the upside, you don't have to give any money to animal protection if your beliefs aren't represented by the choice of groups being supported. Just a thought. What do you think about this idea?

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The next generation understands that the slaughter of our precious wildlife is unethical and has no place in modern society. The reason hunting has no future in this country is that the next generation of potential hunters will not accept these myths. Aland Winnetka, Ill.,