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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of October 2012?

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Weekends carry more emotional heft in most of our personal planners, probably because we save all of our fun for Friday through Sunday. Also, many see their weekdays governed almost exclusively by their business calendars. But then again, many of us use all seven days in a week for both work and recreation.

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Paradise Regained

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I was just getting back into birding, and had only gone to some urban sites, during 2012 and 2013. Among all the birding locations I have found, Pino Real was my first love. I had tried out Lake Cuitzeo, and Laurelito, a wonderful town outside of Morelia that another birder had recommended. Now it is just… grass.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. Chapter One is all about Marybeth’s 2012 Big Year, an adventure she shares with Lynn, a fishing enthusiast who is probably the most supportive big year/300 year birding partner in the history of listing.

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Catalonia is First Region to Ban Bullfighting

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Lawmakers in Catalonia's regional parliament approved the controversial ban, 68-55, with nine abstentions, after emotional speeches that mixed expressions of support for preserving tradition with denunciations of bullfighting as institutionalized cruelty. The ban will take effect in the region, of which Barcelona is the capital, in 2012.

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Join America’s Pet Debate!

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veterans by providing the mental, physical and emotional support of cats and dogs through animal-assisted therapy. From now until Nov. 8, you can vote for your favorite pet at www.americaspetdebate.com once a day. Purina will proudly declare whether America is a cat or dog nation on Nov. But this debate has a greater purpose!

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A special Pied Oystercatcher

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It was quite an emotional home-coming for me as I sat with the other shorebirds at high tide in the 38c heat. Now, I had an encounter with one identical on 18th December 2012 and it was in the same area on the same beach and although I have walked the beach hundreds of times since it must surely be the same one!! Hermit Crab in lid.

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One Year Under El Jefferino

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What bird will it be in 2012? We’re looking at ways to make the choice for 2012. I hasten to add that many of those staunch critics were and are, of course, among the people who feel most passionately about the organization and are most deeply invested in it emotionally. Most of the time, anyhow.

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