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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. . * Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City. By PA Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J Norse, & John Kieran.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

10,000 Birds

The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. From a press release about that research: >Common Loons (Gavia immer) nest on lakes across Canada and the northern U.S.,

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