10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

I don’t know which legislative branch to appeal to, but there ought to be a law that mandates life birds on a birder’s birthday. Perhaps we should require lifers on anyone’s birthday. Sure beats cake! I spent several hours of an otherwise excellent weekend dipping multiple times on a rare ABA Tufted Duck. How about you?

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2010

2): We disagree with your contention that the First Amendment protects animal “crush” videos. These videos, the subject of House legislation and of a bill that we plan to introduce, are beyond “disgusting”—and go beyond conventional conceptions of animal cruelty. We believe our new legislation will pass constitutional muster.

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New York Times New York District of Columbia Animal Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

You can check the table of contents, or browse the “gallery of thumbnail images” in the Introduction (see image above) or use either of the two indexes—a Short Index on the inside back cover flap and a traditional Index of popular and scientific names. There is an important area I haven’t touched on yet—accuracy of visual content.

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Ireland Birds Groups Falcons 148

Critter News

JUNE 12, 2010

Similar legislation permitted the NIH itself to enter into deals with drug companies that would directly transfer NIH discoveries to industry. Until then, taxpayer-financed discoveries were in the public domain, available to any company that wanted to use them.

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Medical Research Pro-Test Medical Animal 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. The legislators in these 12 states ought to be ashamed. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. Breast-feeding does just that.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Baicich takes us through the history of wetlands and waterfowl conservation policy, planning, and legislation (much, but not all seemingly motivated by the desire to conserve enough habitat so that waterfowl hunters will have a wealth of targets) and offers nine recommendations for what we can do. And, I am very interested in what you think.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122