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Slowing down Chimney Swifts

10,000 Birds

And the next day they’re gone, coursing over the skies of South America. Birds that had been banded in Nashville, Tennessee. I raised my camera. Hundreds of birds, even thousands at their peak, spiraling down into the meter wide opening like so much bathwater down a drain. The conditions were perfect.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. For this to happen, subsidies that keep animal feed artificially low, and encourage producers to raise as many animals as possible, should end.

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Winter Wood-Warblers in Southeast Florida

10,000 Birds

Yellow-throated Warbler by Carlos Sanchez Of course, for many local birders, part of the excitement in this hobby is finding the unusual or rarely recorded, and winter offers perhaps the greatest deal of excitement in this regard.

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