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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

Text alerts, if you’re lucky enough to know about them, are great (though most don’t allow for information beyond rare bird sightings). I’ve missed this information, especially when I travel to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family. Nick Lund is the perfect person to write this guide. Well, eBird is great.

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Settlement Forces Animal Research Facilities to Disclose More

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Animal research facilities will be required to disclosee more information online about their experiments under a court settlement signed Wednesday by the Humane Society of the United States and the Agriculture Department. I worry it won't pass the DC district court for some wacky reason. From the LA Times.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists.

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Birding According to ChatGPT, Part II

10,000 Birds

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. They may go on birding trips, join birding events, participate in birding competitions, and collaborate with other birders to gather information about rare or elusive species.

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For the Budding Vegan Author

Animal Person

Books are obvious opportunities for advocacy and vegan education. You'll need to know all of the information in your book proposal anyway in order to sell it, so forget carping about having to go through the exercise of a 50-odd page proposal (the bulk of which is your writing sample anyway).

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

It brought the information out of the abstract and into the real, the visceral. If the experience of handing over that box can be transformative instead of alienating or shaming, there’s a possibility of change. Short of legal restrictions on outdoor cats, what is the best way to bridge that understanding, one on one, and as a society?

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