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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Change in Law. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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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. He collected the first data set, invented the experimental equipment, came up with the first conclusions, the theories and findings upon which subsequent studies have been based. It’s not a bad idea.

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Greater Sage-grouse v. Wind Turbines in Oregon

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NEPA is a federal law that requires agencies to follow certain procedures before commencing a project. The conservation groups raised a number of arguments, but the court ruled against them and in favor of BLM in every instance. As a result, the entire project was subjected to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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They can be found all over the book–some interspersed with resident and migratory species, some collected together in the back of the chapter, some in the last chapter on North American vagrant landbirds. The book’s organization of rare and vagrant birds is inconsistent and confusing. Is the bird pictured what the caption says it is?

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We Interrupt Regularly Scheduled.

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I was told by a Panamanian bank vice president, “Every multinational knows that if Honduras raises its hourly rate, the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean will have to follow. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”

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