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Honduras Trip Winner Has Blogged His Trip

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Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Tags: Asides • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Get yours today!

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First the news, in case you haven't heard: Animal Acres in Los Angeles now has a blog by Philip called Vegan Sanctuary. For more information and to get the code for a widget to display your support on your Facebook page or blog, go here. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. Check it out! At least you've still got your touch.".

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Kathy Hershey: Parker, the Playground’s Vulture

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Today’s blog was written by Kathy Hershey, co-founder of Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators in Hope, Indiana. His modus operandi was essentially the same wherever he’d appear: first, he’d stand next the school entrance and wait while the school bus unloaded, then he’d make his way to the playground and play “tag” with the kids.

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DNA Bar Codes Could Help Identify Illegal Bush Meat

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This is an interesting piece from the Scientific American blog. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking endangered species. One of the major challenges in combating the bushmeat trade is identifying the source species for the meat and products.

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Is BP Hiding Dead Animals?

Critter News

That is the issue raised by this blog post. A CBS News crew was threatened with arrest when it tried to photograph the spill, and a BP representative in Louisiana told a Mother Jones reporter that she couldn’t visit the Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge without a BP escort. TP has the story in this repost.

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Bird Banding Codes Demystified

10,000 Birds

These Blasts From The Past New Bird Blog What’s In a Scientific Name? These Blasts From The Past New Bird Blog What’s In a Scientific Name? Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

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