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Birding Southeastern Washington (McNary NWR)

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However, the region’s dominant river — the Columbia River — which serves as the border for much of Oregon and Washington, also flows through these rangelands. Along the way, Marsh Wrens flitted in the cattails, Caspian Terns noisily passed overhead, and an Osprey hunted over the water. Plus, they offer excellent birding.

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Psychiatrist Arrested for Trafficking in Gall Bladders

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So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this. From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan.

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National Family Pack Walk Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

mile walk around the National Mall will be led by Cesar and Scooby, followed by an afternoon packed with Scooby-Doo-themed activities such as arts & crafts, a reading lounge, game tents, a scavenger hunt, and more! While Scooby and Cesar will lead the walk in Washington, D.C., Here’s what you could win. 1 Fun Net.

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On Compassionate Bullets

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In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem. Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. Tags: Activism Ethics Language Cayuga deer hunting. There's a lot going on in the above three sentences. But that's not what happens.

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The Queen

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One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. She was clearly not a young bird and was banded, so once she was warm and fed, I called the Bird Banding Lab in Washington, D.C., She taught them how to hunt, and when they were released in the fall she stayed on her perch, dozing in the sun.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. BBC has the story as a video.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

No wildlife species, especially a migratory one shared in common by many nations, can withstand commercial hunting without end. All commercial hunting was banned, and those species were carefully managed for sport hunting only. Commercial hunting of wildlife was always a losing proposition on land.