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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

While cruelty to animals is a serious matter that should elicit widespread public outrage, efforts to reach the public through more serious means often fall on deaf ears in a world in which sex sells and there are both a war and an economic downturn. Animal suffering and human suffering are undeniably interconnected. July 15, 2008