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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. And it’s the subject of a new article in National Geographic by author and birder Jonathan Franzen.

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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A Spanish version of the following article appeared in the 9/4/11 edition of the Honduran publication, La Tribuna. Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. But, what about the rights of those who cannot defend themselves?

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Rather than painting all bird images to face the same direction, as is customary in many field guides, the Navarro combines images of the bird looking left, right, up, even right at you, the sums of the images creating compositions of diagonal lines, circles, and mirror images. We still can’t just buy a plane ticket and go.

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

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The statute defines a depiction of animal cruelty as “any visual or auditory depiction, including any photograph, motion-picture film, video recording, electronic image, or sound recording of conduct in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if such conduct is illegal.”

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ). The first attempt in hunting was made by the male hornbill which was seen snapping at a passing swiftlet, but was unsuccessful.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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While it is laudable to publish a paper about the threat to laughingthrushes (including this) by the bird trade, I still feel that lame-joke titles such as “Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia” should be avoided.

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