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Good News for Greyhounds

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You may recall that Massachusetts voters let their opinions about dog racing be heard when they voted to ban racing in their state. Some get adopted into great homes. But for me, the number of adopted dogs doesn't make up for the fact that we have no right to breed dogs to use them as gambling chips. Mooney Rhode Island.

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Say Hello to Our New Nature News Beat Writer!

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She adores her new adopted home, especially because she lives in jogging distance of its birding mecca, the Magic Hedge.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America.

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

4 The Love Of Animals

Sasha, adopted at approximately nine months old, has taken roughly thirteen years to trust humans enough to be stroked while she’s standing on the floor. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts.

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Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers: Kiwi Rising Double IPL

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Kiwi Rising is a double India pale lager by Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers of Framingham, Massachusetts. Lastly, this is the first appearance of a flightless bird in my weekly reviews, though our plucky avian mascot this week is depicted getting aloft in the hop-laden basket of a hot-air balloon.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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The story is that an HM editor was also president of Massachusetts Audubon. A Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America was published in 1934 by Houghton Mifflin (note–Peterson was 26 years old), after being rejected by four publishers.

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Proposed Changes to Migratory Bird Treaty Act

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The Obama Administration adopted this interpretation in a memo. From 2010-2018, FWS opened about 60 enforcement actions per year, mostly relating to the electric distribution and transmission (30 actions/year) and oil and gas (15 actions/year) industries. The image at the top (via Wikipedia ) is a U.S.

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