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Rename All Birds Named After White People

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This writing of conquest onto the so-called natural world is an example of what the late Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano called the “Coloniality of Power,” a concept Quijano coined, and which many others have adopted , to describe the fundamental role colonialism has played in organizing modern social life and knowledge.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. This species is primarily an insectivore.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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The kiwi (note, Maori loanwords do not get an ‘s’ when made plural) were first used as logos in the 19th century, and were quickly adopted as a a national emblem before the turn of the century. Searching for kiwi is unlike spotlighting that I’ve done while looking for nocturnal animals in the past.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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In the last several hundred years, this service has been performed by hops, but before their widespread adoption in medieval Europe, brewers relied on a compendium of botanical agents to bitter their beers – some of which contained psychoactive or mildly toxic substances. Your move, Budweiser.).

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. I am inclined to believe so.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

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They are all wonderful people and they are all animal lovers. But I’ve learned we love animals in very different ways. “Why can’t the kittens be adopted,” I asked in her comments section. I come from a large family: five sisters, two brothers and almost everyone has kids.