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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time! Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams.

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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

Critter News

Thanks to Patty at Animal Rights-Do Whatever is Necessary for reposting this list of 40 ways to help lab animals. There are many excellent books on issues related to animal research. Know Your Adversary Part of being an effective activist on animal research issues is knowing the arguments in support of animal research.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

The three huge eagles are lottery winner rare and the Orange-breasted Falcon has never been documented for the country but the rest are seen here and there on an annual basis. Their populations are often limited by inter-specific competition, scarce resources and other factors. This curassow is great.

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A Tale of Three Magnificent Frigatebirds (Two I help, one tries to kill me)

10,000 Birds

There are excellent resources available, both in print and online ( Birds of North America is an indispensable online resource for the wild bird caregiver). We went from one disastrous spill to another, searching for oiled birds, but mostly documenting the dead. In a quick review, you learn frigatebirds eat fish.

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Birds of Kruger National Park and Wildlife of Ecuador: Two WILDGuides Reviewed

10,000 Birds

Birds of Kruger National Park covers the 259 species most frequently seen in the park, about half of the total number of birds documented there. Barnes, a native of South Africa, also wrote the companion book to this one, Animals of Kruger National Park (2016), and The Important Bird Areas of South Africa (1998).

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scottā€™s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it. Scottā€™s was fined $12.5 The writers have created a good book.

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