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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

10,000 Birds

This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Xantus’s Hummingbird – Hylocharis xantusii. Marbled Murrelet – Brachyramphus marmoratus.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

10,000 Birds

They noted 598 species as a team, bringing the year total to 2118 and pushing the life list to 3555. Watch out for Tom during October to see this anomaly put right. Marbled Murrelet – Brachyramphus marmoratus. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Xantus’s Hummingbird – Hylocharis xantusii.

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