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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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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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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

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Heartworms are easily controlled by any one of a number of medications designed to kill the worms or repel mosquitoes. Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus.

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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

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From Birdlife International, “In 2010-2011 an American Mink Neovison vison, a new arrival on the Buenos Aires plateau, killed more than half the adults in a breeding colony of two dozen nests (Roesler et al. We only observed 6 breeding colonies, two in 2009/2010 and four in 2010/ 2011, totalling 242 nesting attempts.

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

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While many worked on the issue, we here at 10,000 Birds like to believe that Julie Zickefoose’s heartfelt and powerfully written blog post here on 10,000 Birds in October of 2010 had a lot to do with the tabling. So, please, take a couple of minutes from your day to take action to help protect this magnificent and wild creature.

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The Danube Backwaters

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The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. In 2010 the League for Ornithological Action, a local NGO, initiated the protection of the Danube foreland , which was accepted by the authorities.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”