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AVMA releases resources on antimicrobial resistance susceptibility testing

AVMA News

The AVMA’s Committee on Antimicrobials (CoA) recently created one-pagers on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) to help veterinarians make decisions on whether and when to pursue testing for patients, be they dogs, cats, cattle, or food fish.

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Whooping Crane at Joe Overstreet Road

10,000 Birds

The team felt that project resources and birds produced in captivity could be better used for other whooping crane releases as well as to maintain the captive flock. The first farm on the left, where all the cattle are? He’s usually way back from the road, but he feeds from the cattle trough so he sticks around.

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Thousands of Tricolored Blackbirds Saved Through Farmer/Conservationist Partnership

10,000 Birds

’s National Resources Conservation Service has kept 65,000 Tricoloreds from meeting a grim fate. The farmers, who specialize in silage (grains grown for cattle feed), wait a little longer to harvest their crops, giving young birds the time to fledge and move on.

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What Flies Over Costa Rica in the Night?

10,000 Birds

For a bird with resources and long wings, those destinations are just a bit further down the flyway. If the last stop from the Yucatan happens to be Costa Rica, warblers, cuckoos, and thrushes come down to rest and with so much habitat available in such a small area, they can have their pick of cloud forest, rainforest and riparian zones.

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On Exploitation, OED-Style

Animal Person

to turn to industrial account (natural resources). b. 282/1 In exploiting mineral resources. The action of exploiting or turning to account; productive working or profitable management (of mines, cattle, etc.). To cause to succeed, prosper. It gets interesting in the 1800s. Check out what happens. To ‘work’ (a mine, etc.);

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

10,000 Birds

There is no end-of-book list of resources, which reflects, I think, an assumption that the birder using this book is already familiar with the more general birding books and magazines. Each chapter concludes with References, a bibliographic listing of the books, articles, and web pages cited in the text.

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

Additionally, Wildlife Services puts little emphasis on using non-lethal methods, and puts few resources towards developing new, ethical non-lethal research; • Unnecessary and Fiscally Unsound - Taxpayers are paying the bill for these activities, and Wildlife Services fails to protect the businesses it supposedly helps.

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