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

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. “We have the ability to fix it, but we still need the collective will” (p. Did the model work?

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. The human world is on the move to where the money is. In Abraham Lincoln’s day, Prairie Chickens were an incredibly abundant part of the Illinois prairie landscape. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive. This moment is about beginning to see in a new way.

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It's Back! The Horror of Horse Slaughter in DeKalb

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In DeKalb, Illinois, that monster is Cavel International, the only remaining plant in the U.S. that slaughters horses for human consumption. Since it is illegal to sell horse meat for human consumption in the U.S., One can't kill horses for human consumption within the U.S., The answer is the proverbial loophole.

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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Located between the Mississippi River and Illinois River, the refuge encompasses 9,225 acres of riverine and floodplain habitat scattered around the confluence of the rivers. The only answer I can come up with is that they collect fees from those users and view them as their only source of revenue.

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