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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The unrivaled aerial champions of the Americas have to be the two species of Condor, the one-time almost nearly extinct California Condor and the truly massive Andean Condor. The California Condor has a story well-known by anyone with an interest in birds. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley. Old Wold Vultures.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Mountain Plover, California. 2018 was a good year for Mountain Plover in California, with a congregation (that is what you call a flock of plovers, says the Internets) seen regularly in Antelope Valley from early November on. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

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