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Hawking for Nighthawks

10,000 Birds

Striated Heron in breeding plumage – extra plumes and blue lores. Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also. Even though I had seen these cryptic austral migrants before, there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity that was this close to home.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

More greenhouse gas emissions are generated by current methods of meat, dairy and livestock production than by driving cars, so we need to reduce meat consumption and develop alternative food production technologies just as urgently as we need to reduce driving and develop alternative fuel technologies.