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Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015)

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The 2015 Valravn Old Vine Zinfandel is a dark, blood-red wine showing incarnadine flashes in the glass. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting. Valravn Wines: Sonoma County Old Wine Zinfandel (2015). Four out of five feathers (Excellent).

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Low-effort Warbling

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Here in Trinidad, we routinely experience several of these migrants – most of these birds surely pass by unrecorded as not everyone is a birder and not all birders are huge fans of suffering from Warbler Neck. Each brings its distinctive, cheerful addition to the soundscape of forests and wetlands across T&T.

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Where are the Bobolinks?

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Of course, Bobolinks are grassland birds and like many grassland birds they’ve suffered a long dangerous decline as the grasslands of the U.S. A 65% loss of population between 1966 and 2015 is no joke. Now, according to my father and brother, they’re rare and show up only in transit when they show up at all.

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. Who suffers for these crimes? These three young men, she says, were the only predators the fence couldn’t keep out. If his lawyer succeeds, Gutierrez won’t, either.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. It’s time to send the message that cost is not the only important consideration. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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However, I do think that there are illustrations here that suffer from washed-out blacks and whites that almost blend into the background. Gallardo (2015). Or, are the tones similar to the birds’ depiction by two masters of Neotropical bird illustration? In this specific case, I have to go with the latter.

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