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Bird Litigation: Hindsight and the California Condor

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the 1980s to be part of a captive breeding program. Audubon thought there should be some wild condors to serve as “guide birds” for condors that would eventually be released from the captive breeding program. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. FWS appealed to the U.S.

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Breast Cancer in Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Most “at-risk” breeds: poodle, Brittany spaniel, English setter, pointer, fox terrier, cocker spaniel, Boston terrier. PurinaCare® pet health insurance is offered to dog and cat owners in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. . • Less than 50 percent of canine mammary tumors are malignant.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. There is no place that compares to Maine with its rocky shorelines, freezing waters populated by wintering alcids, offshore islands filled with nesting Atlantic Puffins, mixed and boreal forests (the most forested state in the U.S.,