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

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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The hope is that by documenting the carnage support can be raised for a “ Lights Out DC &# program that would ask “taller buildings to turn off unnecessary lights at night during critical migration periods.&# The program, which is modeled on those in New York City, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, and Chicago, would do more than save migratory (..)

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Contrary to Ms.

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A Remembrance of Birds Past: The Lost Bird Project

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The birds on display at Audubon through next April are just one of a number of traveling sets; others can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisc., and elsewhere. And one set of the sculptures is broken up, scattered.

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Gulls Simplified: A Gull Book Review

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The beginning of each chapter begins with a stunning, full-page photograph of a gull on the left; each photo shows the gull with wings raised, facing right as if in expectation of wonderful things. And, then there is a Hybrid Gulls chapter, covering five well-documented hybrids.