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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

10,000 Birds

Several likely winter in the southern Amazon (where the forest and all of its incredible biodiversity is being steadily decimated and replaced with massive cattle farms) but according to migration data, even more may depend on the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay and northern Argentina as well as related dry forest habitats in Bolivia.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farms using rBGH are likely to use more grain, water, fuel, emit more greenhouse gases and spend more on feed and other inputs, offsetting any economic gains. Such hormones may increase the risk of breast, colon and gastrointestinal cancers, according to a University of Illinois study. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers.

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Collaborative List – November 2018

10,000 Birds

He pointed out that Illinois had been sadly neglected up to this point, so Redgannet made a special visit to Chicago to redress this oversight. Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Las Trancas farm fields (Rt 254 to Playa Panama). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa.

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