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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Motomco also makes “Jaguar” and “Tomcat,” complete with cat icons, of course.

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Creating habitat

10,000 Birds

Of course, I also love birding in Mexico, with its 1,000+ species, and seemingly infinite variety of habitats. It now bears lots of fruit for Blue Mockingbirds and Curve-billed Thrashers. We should protect it wherever we can. I love living in central Mexico, and miss very few things about living in the U.S.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

10,000 Birds

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. A worrying trend.

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Living in, on and around cactus

10,000 Birds

Bear in mind, even the plants have to find ways to survive, so virtually every one of them has some form of thorny defense. The cactus are not the only things down here that are protected in this manner. As you can see below, I have tried to document the action, and of course, like much of nature, the biggest eats first.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Bearing Up ” (Op-Ed, Jan. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the scientific literature is very clear that polar bear survival is highly threatened in the wild. Because polar bears are at the top of the marine food chain, their bodies accumulate persistent organic pollutants that disrupt their reproductive systems.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

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And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And most of us, of course, just don't know about this. But what about the vegetarian alternative? by which animal diets exceed vegetable diets for us.