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California Peregrines Victims of Their Own Success?

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In a move that’s sure to stir controversy far beyond the borders of California, federal officials have announced that h enceforth, fledgling Peregrine Falcons won’t be relocated from nests built on bridges in the state. News California Conservation endangered species Peregrine Falcon' total was roughly 100 birds.

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US Government Shutdown Affects Birders (and Birds, Too)

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Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. Although Fox News suggests an alternate way to “visit” them which does birders no good.) Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, are laid off. parks and preserves. Photo by the National Park Service).

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

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But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law. To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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There are only approximately 23 million people in the whole country, which is about 10 million less than the state of California. Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

CSI actress Jorja Fox, the ADI spokesperson for the operation, greeted the lions when they arrived in San Francisco said: “These magnificent lions have lived all their lives in a tiny cage on the back of a truck. Because we have ARK2000, our 2,300-acre sanctuary in San Andreas, California, we were happy to be able to help. &#.

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