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Binocular snobbery

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Many years ago I interviewed Barbara Young, then the newly recruited chief executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), for an article for The Daily Telegraph. I was one of a small group of journalists, each of whom was presented with the latest Dialyt 10×40 inscribed with our initials.

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The Devil Is In The D-Con

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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. Activists and environmental groups went into overdrive, and in March 2014 the State of California approved a ban on the sale of the worst types of anti-coagulants.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes. Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S. Birding'

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Preferably, they should be wearing colors of purple, white, and gold, the branded hues of their movement. No other characters or group of characters are described so persistently with the use of their religious, ethnic, or racial names. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain). Botibol” (p.

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

Animal Person

Earlier in the year Chiquita Brands International Inc. 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. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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Britain’s Dragonflies & Britain’s Butterflies: A Review of Two Field Guides

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He is a trustee of the British Dragonfly Society and convenes its Dragonfly Conservation Group. It is Herperia comma, the skipper we call Common Branded Skipper, a smaller orange-brownish skipper with several white spots on its hindwings. Andy Swash is a zoologist and professional ecologist who co-founded WILDGuides in 1999.

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