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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

If a large, powerful bird of prey capable of terrorizing a Wild Turkey comes to mind, that may be a fair definition of a hawk-eagle. Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. Black Hawk-Eagle.

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Leucistic Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

10,000 Birds

Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# These Blasts From The Past Thrilling Turkey Facts What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead? He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Thanks, Corey!

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Out and About with the Cumberland Bird Observers Club

10,000 Birds

The kid was about seven but utterly enthusiastic and capable of reciting great swathes of facts about animals and where he had seen this bird or animal – it reminded me a little of myself at that age! Spotted Pardalotes are uniquely Australian birds. It wasn’t nearly as busy this time, but still okay for wetland birds.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.

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Philip E. Devine on Demi-Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Others might argue that what is important is the level of the animal's evolutionary development, so that while it is acceptable to eat poultry one should abstain from the flesh of animals, or while it is acceptable to eat fish one should abstain from the flesh of warm-blooded animals. Philip E.