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Birding the Bear Mountain of Serbia

10,000 Birds

A narrow forest road takes us to the chain blocking the entrance, with a sign “Area closed – bear danger”. A Red Fox walks through the remaining intestines at the feeding station, while I spread the torch light, notebook and the camera in front of me. Now would be the biggest chance for a bear… or maybe not?

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Birding Dulan County, Qinghai

10,000 Birds

But I have to admit that seeing some of the wolves, foxes, asses, and sheep of Dulan county is nice, at least as long as they do not stand in front of some exciting birds. Tibetan Fox. If you want to learn more about being miserable and do not know Misery Bear, please watch this video. A juvenile nearby. Blue Sheep.

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Jumping out of my “Beat” today

10,000 Birds

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 North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays.

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

10,000 Birds

All this has helped Ommegang become a tourist attraction in its own right. True, there is what looks like a dove sitting with a fox in silhouette on the Rare Vos label, and in 2015, Ommegang released a dark saison called Three-Eyed Raven as part of its licensing partnership with the hugely popular HBO series Game of Thrones.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? A guide that feels so right in my hands? And, I love that some subspecies get their own range maps (Fox Sparrow and Dark-eyed Junco yes, White-breasted Nuthatch and Savannah Sparrow no).

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the Moral Status of Animals

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"The Puritan," Macaulay once wrote with condemnatory intent, "hated bear-baiting , not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." John Passmore , "The Treatment of Animals," Journal of the History of Ideas 36 [April-June 1975]: 195-218, at 195 [italics in original; footnotes omitted])

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