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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Scripps’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus scrippsi. Xantus’s Hummingbird – Hylocharis xantusii.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

10,000 Birds

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Scripps’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus scrippsi. Xantus’s Hummingbird – Hylocharis xantusii.

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