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Neversink Spirits: Neversink Spirits Gin

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Our featured spirit this week is Neversink Spirits Gin, the flagship product of Neversink Spirits , a craft distillery in Port Chester, New York. Being located in a great apple-growing state like New York, Neversink uses 100 percent state-grown fruit to produce their apple-based gin.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. 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.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

We’ve been educating, helping and begging people to spay and neuter their animals for years, but three million to four million cats and dogs still die in shelters every year because of simple math: too many animals, not enough worthy adoptive homes. This crisis calls for mandatory spay and neuter legislation. Daphna Nachminovitch Norfolk, Va.,

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. This New York Times article summarizes the current status of travel to Cuba. and Cuba.).

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Preparing to Compile the Queens County Christmas Bird Count

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Eventually, when the circle was adopted, it was discovered that some circles overlapped. The New York City area’s Christmas Bird Count density is absurd. I have recruited through word-of-mouth and the New York Birders Facebook page. The Queens count circle is the one in the middle.

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Fun, Fun, Fun Crossley ID Guide Giveaway

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Why should early adopters be punished for their passion? National Wildlife Week and Quick Links « Zoologirl's Blog Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:59 pm [.] There’s a new bird ID book out that has birders really excited: The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds. Sounds good, right? Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. The name became applied to the people of New Zealand during the First World War (until then they had been called En Zeds, Maorilanders or Fernleaves!). Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S.