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Isla Isabel – Mexico’s Galapagos

10,000 Birds

It was made a National Park in the 1980s and is a major breeding and nesting area for over 30,000 seabirds. These nutrient-rich currents provide sustenance for a variety of marine-life, including the many thousand of seabirds that call this place home. Swimming with a whale shark on the boat-trip to Isla Isabel.

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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast is designed to be a quick, handy resource for use on whale watching and one-day pelagic trips. The book says nothing about photographing marine life; I highly recommend it.). Birds of California , the new volume in the ABA series, arrived the day I returned.

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PETA's Orca Lawsuit Dismissed by Federal Judge

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Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? PETA went on to request that the whales be freed and released to a habitat better suited to their needs. Well, it's still historic and precedent-setting. Here's hoping we see more of these legal challenges. Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post.

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