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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

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This is Jason’s fifth contribution to the blog. The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon who loves to share thoughtful , in-depth conservation pieces with 10,000 Birds readers.

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Farm Sanctuary Wary about Tom Vilsack for USDA

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This is a December 18 post from Gene Bauer's blog pointing out some concerns about Vilsack. I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. ” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up. (If

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Gotta love the Alps

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bla bla bla (add interesting text here) >> fast forward >> the end bit… so the real reason I wanted to write this blog post is that I wanted to share this video: [link] All these images were taken right here, where we live and make fancy schmancy binoculars. And out of that, came my Discovering Alpine Birds blog.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) If a meat eater eats meat, but hates the factory farm system or animal experimentation, do we discount anything we can get out of them because they are not "pure." Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

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The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. I certainly didn't. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. The bird has two main calls which are quite different but which seem to be used more or less interchangeably.

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