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Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

10,000 Birds

Looking back, they can seem quite dated – questionable environmental ethics and anthropology and all that – but the sense of adventure that they conveyed, and the sense that I too, if necessary, could someday rise to the occasion and share a bond with nature, were catnip to a middle-grades reader.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

You will need to know enough about your Olympus or Sony or other brand of camera to know how to translate the settings info into your camera’s vocabulary. Photography & Ethics & Me. Composition is composition, suggestions for photographing birds from a car or a boat or in fog apply no matter what camera you are using.

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A New Wildlife Refuge Pass: Fellow Birders, Help Us Help You

10,000 Birds

Rather than promote a second stamp, we’ve created a brand new alternative that stands on its own. Our mission and ethic is to protect all species, from the amphibians burrowed and obscured in the mud, to the ecologically-critical predators often overlooked in game management systems. Here’s What’s New. WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK.

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Emme Loves Ami!

Animal Person

And to my surprise, she picked them out of her Whole Foods brand canned food loaded with animal products. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. It was with some trepidation that I opened the bag and offered chunky Emily some of the animal-free tasty morsels. What a relief! Perhaps I will change my mind.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. And there are ethical reasons for becoming vegetarian. Ethical synergy at work.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Interestingly, Chestnut-collared Longspur does appear under its brand-new official name, Thick-billed Longspur, though the description underneath uses the old name. I do wish that the ethics section included guidance on the use of playback and that all the sections included titles or websites for further reading.

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Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Animal Person, Part 2

Animal Person

particularly in the name of a blog, as that's part of branding. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language abolition animal rights blogging veganism vegetarianism writing. Then why not use your name? I think that a handful of years ago it was fun to use a different moniker (Animal Person, anyone?),

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