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Retirement Age?

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Partly due to the paucity of birding missions within the past fortnight, but more so because T&T is one of the few countries within which there are several birds bearing the national colours. Here are some of them: For those of you unfamiliar with the national colours of T&T, here is a Red-billed Tropicbird with all three.

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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Here's the article from the Globe and Mail. Tags: canada blood sport polar bear hunting trophy hunting endangered species. insert crying baby picture here.)

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The Inuit Point of View on Polar Bears

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Here's an article in the Nunatsiaq News that talks about polar bear conservation from the Inuit point of view. The Inuit harvest, or hunt, polar bears in Canada. "In But not with polar bears." He said that a lot of Inuit feel betrayed by the animal rights movement, and by some biologists when it comes to polar bears.

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Jumping out of my “Beat” today

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Let me start off with being quite clear, there are no grizzly Bears on the Baja! All of which, was for one a one day shoot with the famed bears, as they dined on the fall salmon run. In addition to the Grizzly Bears , I was able to photograph Woodland Buffalo , squirrels, deer, Red Fox , and even a herd of Yaks.

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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Her career path decisions are almost startling in their honesty; this is an area that is seldom, at least to my knowledge, written about formally, beyond Twitter threads and the occasional Chronicle of Higher Education article. A bibliography would be much more efficient. .

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To Drill, or Not to Drill? That’s the Wrong Question.

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The Bears Ears National Monument (a protected public lands designation given to sitting presidents under the Antiquities Act) recently lost 1.1 So I sign petitions and write articles like this one. Bears Ears National Monument ACTION. Horned Lark. Photo by © Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren. Or at least I thought we had….

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Walrus in Trouble Too

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I'm finally getting caught up on some reading and came across this article in the Defenders of Wildlife wildlife. The summer issue had a good article about walruses. We tend to talk about penguins and polar bears, but these guys are important too. Luckily, I found the article online. Very depressing sometimes though.

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