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Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of July 2018?

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Birds run on a different timetable than humans, so many of the former are making plans for fall (or spring) while the latter still ponders how to spend those summer (or winter) nights. I’ll be in Boston for part of this weekend. So if the birding by you has been uninspiring, just wait. A change is on the horizon. How about you?

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. So, 5% of all birds might mean 10% of all song birds and really, it might be 20% or more of all the birds that die in a given year for specific species, with the species involved being those that are common to a specific habitat in which the cats are found.

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? Boston, New York. It’s not a field guide, as such. Indeed, all of that was part of Joyce’s purpose and method: he said that the book would “keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant.”. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. What I want to know is: a hundred feet away, how can these people tell the difference between a crow and a raven, which is a protected species?” You shoot a bullet up, sooner or later it has to come down.

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California’s Autumn Seas

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The gulls that spent months attacking any human on the place are content to loaf around and ignore you. And besides, it’s nice to see something that isn’t the same 12 (now 13) species of seabird (plus Molly Meep Meep, a Black Brant ) There may not be as many as in October, but they are there, and they can be cool.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. Beyond that, though, is the tragedy of the doe’s sole contact with a human: a moment that could have initiated a communion between the two was instead reduced to carnage. BRINNING Boston, Dec. EISENMAN Highland Park, Ill.,

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Trillium Brewing Company: Stumpy Duck American Pale Ale

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Stumpy Duck is an American pale ale by Trillium Brewing Company of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the most popular breweries in New England for the past few years. Afterwards, we had a great dinner at Trillium’s South Boston brewpub, and I made sure to check the to-go counter before I left to see if any of the Small Bird beers were available.

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