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Prairie Falcon Attack on a Northern Shoveler

10,000 Birds

One is his focus on ethical photography. The other is tied to this focus on ethical photography. I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore. To me, two things really set Ron apart from many other nature photographers.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

10,000 Birds

Most of Waldman’s Introduction, for example, is based on five photographs and drawings illustrating random, perhaps representational, examples of how New Yorkers relate to nature in the past (a shark is killed in the Gowanus Canal in 1950) and the present (the fight to re-install the nest of my spark bird, Pale Male). Just a little.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

21, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst’s observations about happy pigs and unhappy farmers aren’t about the well-being of either. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,