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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

10,000 Birds

But within the National Wildlife Refuge System is a frequently overlooked collection of properties burdened by a mundane name: Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. What are WPAs and why should birders care about them?

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Squirrel Buster Wild Bird Feeders: A Review

10,000 Birds

I am very tempted to add the Plus feeder to my collection. Not only does it hold a massive 3 quarts of seed, it is dishwasher safe, weight adjustable, and has a lifetime factory warranty. The three products examined here have 2-year factory warranties and the weights cannot be adjusted.).

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Autumn colours

10,000 Birds

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. Oh, yes, I have a little gull amongst my collection of souvenirs! We really do feel for them as they head north and wish them all the best. I am a man.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

A traditionally managed fishery in the Cook Islands, or a the carefully managed collection of shearwater chicks in New Zealand by the Maori. A duck farmed in a factory is part of nature as much as one that grew up on a pond, even if the particulars of its ecosystem are different. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

10,000 Birds

His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. Apart from a juvenile Southern Beardless Tyrannulet we were just seeing roads and factories. The antwren had been elevated to species level and Hilton is just a sucker for anything Paulista, and besides, who needs a reason to go birding?

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She recreates Alice’s world, describing the poverty in which she and her co-workers, including children, lived, utilizing reports of government Factory and Workshop inspectors and, on the U.S. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.