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Snipe and not Snipe

10,000 Birds

Even if you can definitely say that there was no white trailing edge, the bird has flushed and it would not be possible to say which of the other species it may have been. Painted Snipe have their own family, separate from the true snipes.

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An Embarrassment of Riches

10,000 Birds

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. My only problem is, where to start?

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

The veracity of this statement hinges on Scott's definition of "inhumane," and that definition must be very, very restricted, and clearly unrelated to the realities of our modern factory farm system. Let's deconstruct: Paragraph #1: Americans don't know where their food comes from and what it takes to produce it.

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