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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way. Her product could have a large impact on pet cat-caused bird mortality rates.

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A perfect birding rucksack: Swarovski BP Backpack 30

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In 2013, I wrote of my non-necessity checklist. Each BP Backpack 30 is made of 41 recycled PET 0.5 I would be leaving it behind anyway, in my kayak club, to continue birding with a paddle in my hands. Yet, as I started doing more land birding, I needed something a bit larger and sturdier. If it is so good, what are the cons?

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Random House UK, September 2013. Birds & People.

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