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Snowy Plover Chicks on Okaloosa Island

10,000 Birds

For the most part it remains undeveloped, with rolling dunes, long beaches, and green marshes. Still, it’s a good sign that the parents successfully protected them through this stage, and I cross my fingers that they’ll both make it to adulthood. Snowy Plover Chick. Killdeer Standing Over its Nest.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif., Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about.