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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

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… because my husband and I have done some migrating of our own, from Chicago to Philadelphia, over the past few weeks, and bringing 10,000 Birds readers the freshest and best bird news sadly had to take a back seat to packing, driving, unpacking, and furiously scouring Craigslist for Ikea furniture.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

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Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field. In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. Not yet, knock on wood.)

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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

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Dog prom season kicked off at Best Friends in Chicago with a block buster event attended by 40 doggy couples. Our clients love special events like this,” said Bruce Blaine, manager of Best Friends Chicago Pet Care Center. “We dogs events people helping animals' For more information, visit www.bestfriendspetcare.com.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

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New York City; Nashville, Tenn.; Chicago; and Portland, Ore. In the coming months, Mars Petcare will sponsor family-focused healthy living fairs for pets and people at the following locations: New York City – The Prospect Park YMCA, October 16. Chicago – The Hastings Lake YMCA, October 23.

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