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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

10,000 Birds

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. People who work with wildlife understand that death is a part of life. People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune. What about people who are kind and decent and obey the law?

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

Over the course of nearly 15 years, James Paruk of the Biodiversity Research Institute and his colleagues used a combination of methods to investigate winter site fidelity at four locations across North America and found that birds had an 85% chance of returning to a site in subsequent years. Here’s one of the maps from that paper: *FIGURE 1.

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Bird Litigation: Eagle Tails and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act

10,000 Birds

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided a MBTA case in 2015 and the opinion details one prosecution. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) met Defendants Crooked Arm and Shane in Montana, as part of “Operation Hanging Rock,” an investigation into the unlawful sale of migratory bird feathers. The case is: United States v.

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