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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S.

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Birding under Clouds of Uncertainty: Santa Ana NWR

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Getting from Portland, Oregon to McAllen, Texas—one of the towns near Santa Ana NWR—is neither quick nor easy, but I arrived on Sunday, November 5, 2017. Trump’s presidential campaign was his promise to build a “great wall” along the border with Mexico. A key part of Donald J. The wall appears to be no more than a symbol.

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