10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2014
In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. During both the northbound (spring) and southbound (fall) migrations, knots can be found anywhere along the coastal and inland U.S.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York.
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Critter News
APRIL 20, 2010
The Supreme Court struck down a law that outlawed the depiction of animal cruelty. The high court case stemmed from the arrest and conviction of a Virginia-based documentary producer named Robert Stevens who sold videos containing scenes of dogfights. He argued that his documentaries were protected by the First Amendment.
Critter News
JANUARY 7, 2010
US District Judge Emmet Sullivan signed the December 30 ruling in favor of Ringling's owner, Virginia-based Feld Entertainment Inc. FEI) at the outset of a nine-year-old suit brought by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) that culminated in a six-week trial in March.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
PCBs have been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency since the 1970s, but due to their chemical makeup, can persist in the environment for many years. A Citrine Wagtail (!!!)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?
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