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What’s Up with the ABA?

10,000 Birds

T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. The ABA’s mission statement is vague: “The American Birding Association inspires all people to enjoy and protect wild birds.”

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Kricher is well-known in naturalist book circles as a scientist who can write about complex scientific topics in engaging smart prose touched with just the right amount of dry wit. I’m sure it must have been on my list of suggested reading for my tour (I just checked my files, and yes, it was).

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PETA's Orca Lawsuit Dismissed by Federal Judge

Critter News

Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? Before the ruling, PETA’s attorney Jeffrey Kerr told HuffPost that the animal rights group’s argument was based on the belief that “slavery doesn’t depend upon the species of the slave, any more than it depends upon the race, gender or ethnicity of the slave.

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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

10,000 Birds

Each title in the series is the collective noun for a bird species, which becomes a central theme of the story. For one example, a dispute over the old rights to a Motown dance act (of all things) is the cause of the murder at the heart of the book.). In A Dance of Cranes, dancing, both avian and human, is a leitmotif. (For

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”

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

10,000 Birds

Considering the four main federal agencies, the combined state-owned lands, and the collective non profits falling in the category of land trusts, there are 1.038 billion acres of wildlife habitat under conservation management, of which about 4.9% were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

Animal Person

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." They certainly depict cruelty to animals, right? What do you think?