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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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More than 5,000 bird species in the world make some kind of seasonal movement. Wind turbines have been proposed several times for areas close to the BSBO – one of the great bird flyways on the continent — and the Kaufmans ( and their colleagues ) have spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning against them.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Lost Birds looks at photographic representations of 28 species, 21 of which are birds.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Further, the crane take in Mexico is a free-for-all: neither regulated nor recorded.

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