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Open Season on Bald Eagles

10,000 Birds

People who protest our proposed hunt are trying to strip rights from the hunting public. Anyone who protests this hunt is making an assault on the American way, on our right to harvest our native wildlife—a right that we have held since the first colonist fired a blunderbuss in what was to be America.

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The 2016 AOU Supplement and the Costa Rica Bird List

10,000 Birds

Birders concerned with ticking off bird species from a list in North America already know all about the AOU Supplement. In this case, it augments and clarifies previous knowledge regarding the classification of the birds in North America. However, like any supplement, this publication does provide something extra, something additional.

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Kentucky: First in Crane Hunting?

10,000 Birds

On Dr. Gassett’s answering machine, which someone calling to protest the hunt is likely to encounter, is a similar message about the quality of crane meat. More than 10,000 people hunt cranes in North America each year. Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

10,000 Birds

The first time could be forgiven but he kept doing it despite our protests. His lack of knowledge was just annoying, but the third and worst problem was his failure to grasp the concept of binoculars. Consequently, he would drive too close to any bird party we came across. We glimpsed a lot of presumably good birds flying away from us.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Letters and emails by the thousand poured into the commissioners’ offices, protesting its crane hunting proposal. Kentucky Dept.

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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

10,000 Birds

Likewise, birders rallied against the occupation in several protests around the state on January 19th, sponsored by the Audubon Society of Portland. Federal water rights that underpin entire agricultural economies, and that are critical to some of the last family farms and ranches in America, will be in play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYouXzAez-I.

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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

The rhetoric of terror has been used to “justify” the wire-tapping of America citizens' phone calls without probable cause. These Congresspersons didn’t enact this legislation to make you safer. They enacted it to make animal abusers and the corporations that profit from that animal abuse richer.