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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

10,000 Birds

Each chapter concludes with References, a bibliographic listing of the books, articles, and web pages cited in the text. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Yet the turkey she raises is a much smaller factor in advancing global warming than the cattle on her ranch because they produce meat much more efficiently. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat.

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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

10,000 Birds

He is the great ascetic, the master of fertility, the master of poison and medicine, and Lord of Cattle. Why is there a Lord of Cattle, and what exactly is his job description? No further follow-on questions (“What doe Hindu mean?

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