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Bird Deaths in Washington DC Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program

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Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. for migratory birds.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

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We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. One Indian Muntjac deer quickly crosses two beams of light. What are the threats? It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us. Humbly, we approach on foot. Forest Owlet © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

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The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. Wicked, right?

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. According to R.D.

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The Search for the Rarest Owl of India

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We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. One Indian Muntjac deer quickly crosses two beams of light. What are the threats? It rotates its head 180 degrees to keep an eye on us. Humbly, we approach on foot.

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

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Interestingly, when I checked eBird to see how many birders reported the Cranes at this specific location, there was absolutely no documentation, even though I had seen reports on my eBird alerts and on Florida Facebook pages. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant. ” [[link].

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