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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

The photographic quality ranges from very good to exceptional, and though the point of photographs in a book like this is to communicate information, I think the excellence of some of Loughlin’s photography suffers from the number of images packed into the book. I also think there are chapters where the photographs crowd out the text.

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PETA's Orca Lawsuit Dismissed by Federal Judge

Critter News

Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? SeaWorld’s attempts to deny [orcas] the protection solely based on their species is the same kind of prejudice used to justify any enslavement. Well, it's still historic and precedent-setting. Here's hoping we see more of these legal challenges.

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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. At the end of Cranes, Danny Maik has a concussion, suffered in the line of duty, and Lauren Salter goes to his house to look in on him. 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

Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia.

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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." Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?