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The Pacific Wren of the San Francisco Botanical Garden

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The place was full of parents with toddlers, kindergarten school groups, and walkers like us. Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. Still, a lifebird was on the way.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.”

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Guide to birding the Forgotten Road in the Djerdap National Park, Serbia

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And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. There were two cars used by project participants, and I, the only birder in the group, drove the first car. One of the problems was poor communication.

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The Wildlife Conservation Stamp: An Additional Income Stream for Our National Wildlife Refuges

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Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But for more than 20 years, consumer groups led by Public Citizen have worked to scare the public about food irradiation and threatened to boycott companies that market irradiated products. For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda.

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

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Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. So here’s a suggestion to the groups who work to discourage balloon releases, and to all you computer-savvy environmentalists: create a website filled with ideas for memorials/life celebrations. It’s over; the balloons all went up between 4:15 and 4:30 on a Monday.

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