10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently heard from Chris Kirkby, the Managing Director and Principal Investigator at Asociacion Fauna Forever , a Peruvian not-for-profit organisation based in Lima and Puerto Maldonado, about a series of bird-banding workshops being held this June and November in the rainforests of Tambopata in south-eastern Peru. Wicked, right?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14), unfairly characterized PETA’s efforts. In 2004, for example, The New York Times broke the story about a PETA undercover investigation that found routine animal abuse at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse. To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law?

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New York Times New York Animal Abuse Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Well, you know I’m only joking about the life list. Birders are not, after all, stamp collectors. Well, not really.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 201

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s right – birds eating clay. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity. Thanks for visiting!

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