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Butcher Birds, The Loggerhead Shrike

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In 2011, my wife and I sailed into a beautiful little anchorage here in the Sea of Cortez, on Isla Espritu Santos. Childhood memories flooded back in, and I began my search for the poor victims of this bird, so lovingly nicknamed “The Butcher Bird” Nothing was found, not a grasshopper, lizard, nothing. Migrans and L.i.

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I Remember Elephants

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We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. I say they were butchered, face-off. The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species. One may say so.

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