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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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As Kaufman shows, however, to birds and bats, they can be death machines. Eastern red bats, for only one example, may actually be attracted to wind turbines; and unlike birds, they are often killed by “barotrauma” – their inner organs explode from the drop in air pressure as the blade sweeps past.). by Kenn Kaufman.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. Animal rights groups sued to prevent poison being used to kill the rabbits, and even told a mediator that they would rather every reptile on the island die than a single rabbit be killed.

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Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special

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Lacking, as I do, a birding reputation that would make people part with cash for my time I’ll have to go for the rarity hunters and put together an itinerary of highlights that can’t be missed. There are few sights on Earth more astonishing than the largest flying predator making its kill. I can’t lose.