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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry

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Whenever I get my hands on a trade publication for any industry, my favorite thing to do is see what is being advertised in the magazine. Wow, when I think of all the years I spent working in a wild birds store that was meant to help people attract birds, I was in the wrong industry. Clearly the money is in dissuading birds.

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Monterrey Meetings

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Monterrey is a big industrial city, with industrious people. Mauricio and Melba picked me up and if it weren’t for the Coyote we saw on the way it would have taken us 5 minutes to reach Chipinque Parque Ecologico. Work brings me regularly to Monterrey in Nuevo Leon, northern Mexico. It was David’s first time birding.

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The Nature of the Meadowlands: A Book Review

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The details of the myriad ways in which the land and water were poisoned—toxic substances called leachate resulting from unregulated landfills, industrial sewage, mercury, PCBs, manure from Secaucus pig farms—are horrifying. I really don’t bird Northern New Jersey as often as I should.) Mammal life has been harder to find and photograph.