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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. Stephen Pruett-Jones, an evolutionary biologist who has extensively studied the Monk Parakeets of Chicago, only says that the nests offer a successful alternative to the tree hollows or palm trees utilized by other parrot species. Parakeets in frozen Chicago?

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* ©2012 Donna L. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The United States Department of Agriculture has been broken for a long time, and it is clear that it cannot protect the American public from illness and death from contaminated meat products. Mary Ellen Croteau Chicago, Dec. This is not unlike what we hear from financial institutions trying to track (or not) derivatives.