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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

10,000 Birds

Instead, the film focuses on the importance of the Rio Grande delta as a migratory corridor and the different ways in which ornithologists, biologists, bird surveyors, banders, sanctuary guides, hawk counters, and birders contribute to creating safe places for migrating and residential birds (and also insects, reptiles, and mammals).

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g., Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. Iā€™d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines ā€” the unlucky victims of cruel people ā€” to trust humans again. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. And, I would have understood.

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