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“Earth’s Wild Music”: a book review

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But calls to arms can easily turn, via Moore’s pen and her voice, into hectoring: if you are an “inattentive citizen” who, “distracted or dozing,” won’t step up, you are guilty of “moral failure.” “Those who fail to respond to the emergency call,” she warns ominously, “become part of the storm itself.”. 26 (US), $34 (Canada).

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Water, Water, Everywhere

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and Canada). The moral of the story? The former are supposed to fly south only to and along Mexico’s coasts, while the latter should barely reach this far south strictly along the Mexican coast for the winter. Most winter in the U.S. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support.

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Overload (and Other Fall Birding Highlights in Costa Rica)

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The diversity of migrants isn’t as high as in the eastern USA and Canada, but we do get nice numbers of Blackburnians, Black-and-whites, Wilson’s Warblers , and, believe it or not, Cerulean Warblers. A typical scene at Punta Morales. A fair number of Royal and Sandwich Terns also shared the scene.

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Who cares for your ducks in the winter?

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Now, I do hope you have stayed with me to this point, because there is a moral to this story: How much do you like your ducks, grebes, sandpipers, and plovers? Perhaps you like them enough to have supported legislation protecting wetlands in the United States and Canada.

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From Today's Los Angeles Times

Animal Ethics

Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. In my opinion, neither Harambe nor the child should ever have been at the zoo.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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A new willingness among scientists to consider certain moral and ethical implications with respect to wild animals, where previously utilitarian ideas prevailed, including ideas of intrinsic value. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.

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