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Lisbon’s Lezirias in Winter

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The whole estuary is world class with pasture for fighting bulls, rice fields, mudflats, cork oak forests, salt pans and open water. The unsponsored suffering I must endure for this blog… Those pastries are amazing, but if you are a bit peckish: at the Casa they serve a good lunch too.

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The Importance of Nurturing Young Birders

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In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. The next spring she reported that her first class was doing very well and were able to rapidly identify nearly 200 species. On Mother’s Day, an F2 Tornado hit the small town of Delmont, South Dakota.

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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

10,000 Birds

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! Terrestrial animals could drown; will not be able to access the necessary ranges; be trapped; suffer diminished genetic diversity; and possibly become extirpated and/or extinct. 360 miles of National Park land at the border!

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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

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Skye wore a long-suffering expression, while Bau-Hien – whose parents had settled in Texas after leaving Vietnam – regarded me with a mixture of fascination and alarm. En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”, Soon the girls emerged. Bald Eagles ,” I said encouragingly/defensively/lamely.

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H. B. Acton (1908-1974) on Animal Rights

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This is the question whether the wrongness of cruelty to animals depends in part upon the animals' suffering, or whether it does not depend upon that at all, but only upon the bad effects upon human beings of cruelty to animals, and upon the badness of the human states of mind that such cruelty involves. Even congenital idiots look like men.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Degradation of the Butcher

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To demand a product which can only be procured at the cost of the intense suffering of the animal, and the deep degradation of the butcher, and by a process which not one flesh-eater in a hundred would himself under any circumstances perform, or even witness, is conduct as callous, selfish and unsocial as could well be imagined. Henry S.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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.” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom.

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