Critter News
AUGUST 1, 2009
Channel 8 News raised more than a few eyebrows when it reported on a Shelton canary fighting ring that caused 150 birds to be placed into protective custody and thrust 19 suspects with their first and last names into the public eye. This blood sport was so popular that it actually attracted audiences from Boston and New Jersey.
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
Thought-provoking article in the Boston Globe.some green thinkers are now coming to a surprising conclusion: In exceptional circumstances, they say, the only effective way to protect the environment may be at the barrel of a gun. Already, some conservation campaigns have taken on martial aspects.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
The hope is that by documenting the carnage support can be raised for a “ Lights Out DC &# program that would ask “taller buildings to turn off unnecessary lights at night during critical migration periods.&# The program, which is modeled on those in New York City, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, and Chicago, would do more than save migratory (..)
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
As a talked to a couple from Boston, new to birding, I spotted a Clapper Rail walking close behind us. I did bring my spotting scope with me, but it really wasn’t necessary here. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
Michael Martin is a professor of philosophy at Boston University. A CRITIQUE OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Michael Martin Boston University Vegetarianism is an old and respectable doctrine, and its popularity seems to be growing. First, I will raise some questions that usually are not asked, let alone answered, by moral vegetarians.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2012
Bringing me back to earth was Chet Baker, Boston Terrier, who was very eager to open the box for me. Songbird rehabilitation, unlike the vastly more popular raptor rehab, mostly involves raising orphans. A book five years in the making, 80,000 words and 320 illustrations, most of them full color. Baby hummers, not so much.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur. Thank you for your efforts.
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