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Stairway to Heaven

10,000 Birds

The Yellow-green Vireo is another of those rare birds that winter in South America but only travels north as far as Mexico to breed. But, when I checked eBird to make sure I had my facts straight, I found only one sighting listed this far from the coast, and it was by the legendary ornithologist Chester Lamb… in 1951!

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The Joy of One-eyed Birding

10,000 Birds

Lamb, who surveyed the birds of western Mexico from 1932-1955, and whose lists have been posted on eBird in recent years. They breed in northernmost Canada and Alaska, and winter in Patagonia in southernmost South America. All of which makes me a true one-eyed king. (It

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Leitzmann (both from the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America) entitled “A Prospective Study of Red and Processed Meat Intake in Relation to Cancer Risk” suggests (..)