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Neversink Spirits: Neversink Spirits Gin

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But Neversink adopts an uncommon approach to gin production that’s inspired instead by European spirits distilled from fruit – namely Calvados, the apple or pear brandy from Normandy, and eau de vie , a class of fruit-based brandies often distilled from wine and wine byproducts, such as the lees and grape pomace.

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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

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— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Back in sunny Mexico

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Now that we have returned to our adopted home of La Paz, Mexico, our bones are starting to thaw out from the trip to chilly Seattle. Last Saturday, I was walking around the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, on a cloudy, gray 28F morning. This Ladder-backed Woodpecker was chipping away, right above my head.

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My Favorite Release

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So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. Birds bird releases wildlife rehabilitators' So gorgeous!

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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. Wicked, right?

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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. and Cuba.).

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The Belgrade Amazon Campaign or the House of the Eagle

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Afraid that, against millions in investments wildlife may not be an argument enough, I reached for another – the wellbeing of Belgraders, further downstream. Especially threatened areas of the city are the banks of New Belgrade and the right bank of the Sava, where the controversial Belgrade Waterfront project is taking shape.

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