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The Devil Is In The D-Con

10,000 Birds

This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. The photograph in local papers did not show the brand of poison, but the colors on the package were like those of D-Con. Consumer education is the only remedy.

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The Jewel Hunter: A Book Review About One Birder’s Quest for Pittas and Beer

10,000 Birds

Gooddie gets the book off to a quick start by describing his love affair with pittas (“the ultimate forest prize”), and detailing his decision to give up a good career as sales director of an audio manufacturing company (“my life was out of whack”). There go my plans for a 10,000 Birds write-in campaign.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. 3) George W.

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