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A Great Day Out West – Bobcats, Birds and Boardwalks

10,000 Birds

And the magic factories are two neighbors, Green Cay Wetlands and Wakodahatchee Wetlands. Nearly every species of heron and egret in North America forage only feet away, some of them in their dazzling breeding displays. We exit the car and enter magic factory number two. And this is where magic happens from time to time.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Excuse the sudden and random departure from the typical self-aggrandizing and narcissistic ornithophilic content. The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. That will return next month. This makes perfect sense.