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2017 Bird Images

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For the last several years, I have produced a small run of calendars for my fiends and family. Then the culling process begins. The best 12 images of the previous year. This process starts out with about 60 photos. First cut, second cut, third cut, and then, the final.

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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

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After all, you don’t want to sink to spending time with family or doing chores, do you? My books overflow my bookshelves, are stacked haphazardly in several strategic locations, and cause my family to resent me. Cull (and organize) your photos. What’s a birder to do when weather fails to cooperate? Of course not!

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. The images tie directly to the text.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. That conservation uses the death of the species it is trying to save is both paradoxical and not. Management is required, and several things have been tried.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. May I recommend a trip to a slaughterhouse?