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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

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What’s not to like about citizen science, conservation, and transforming a day of slaughter into a day of enjoying being outside watching birds? Kirtland’s Warbler wouldn’t go extinct, birders wouldn’t abandon their favorite winter activity in droves, and the birds wouldn’t even notice.

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Flock to Marion

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These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. After looking through every bar, we concluded that all had abandoned the ship without warning us. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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