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2014-2015 Winter Finch Forecast

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Ron Pittaway has published his winter finch forecast for the winter of 2014-2015. Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added. For a full version of the forecast, head here. GENERAL FORECAST.

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. But the text was last updated in 2015 while the DNA research was done in 2018. If you are a hammerhead, does everything look like a nail to you? And it gets kind of grumpy if these are not available.

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say.

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Big Ag Upset Over California Antibiotics Ban

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SB416, authored by state Majority Leader, Dean Florez (Democrat, Shafter), chairman of the California Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture, which approved the bill three votes to one on 21 April, would have the prohibition in place by 2015.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Together with buffalo meat and milk products, ecotourism – birding, butterflying, botanising; and wider adventure tourism – hiking, mountain biking, canoeing, horseback riding, is the strongest development incentive in the area (ecotourism is often lumped with adventure tourism, but I choose to split them).

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From Today's New York Times

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The meat industry loves to squeal that “the cost of bacon will rise” whenever it’s faced with pressure to change. This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates.