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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of July 2019?

10,000 Birds

While a huge swath of the United States braces for record-setting heat–again–other parts of the world may be suffering equally oppressive though dramatically different weather. I’m visiting Boston for business, which may disrupt my best birding intentions. How about you? Share your plans in the comments below.

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An April Weekend of New York City Birding

10,000 Birds

Besides, suffering brings birds, right? Spotting 57 species of birds in the couple of hours we put in to seeking out birds was never so ho-hum in my life. One final stop at a popular park in Queens netted us another nesting species that we only found because they can’t fly yet, Great Horned Owlets. How exciting.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed. It is only the prejudice of our species that justifies culling the deer population while protecting our own. BRINNING Boston, Dec. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,