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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study. Or how gracefully it flew?

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Common Guillemot research at Skomer Island, Wales. Birkhead rightly credits Yapp and his obsessive research for a lot of what we know about medieval falconry, but it’s not clear why he needs to describe the scholar’s notorious curmudgeonly personality or his sad old age. Beagle , pt.

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

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. There are three to five species described on each page, text on the left, illustrations on the right. Identification of all mushroom species entails proper collection, detailed in the Introduction.

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The Danube Backwaters

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The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. Locations, dates, species and numbers, right? Nevertheless, Nagy was right. Yet, I never heard the splash of a beaver tail when it dives.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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Wheeler, Raptors of Mexico and Central America has a two-part structure: (i) Plates—artwork by Schmitt on the right, detailed plumage descriptions on the left; (ii) Species Accounts—two to six page descriptions of each species with photographs and range maps. And vice versa. Again, this is a common practice.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research.

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