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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Charles Pease shot the bird in northeastern Ohio, and gave it to his father-in-law, Jared Kirtland, one of those 19th century men who was a master multitasker–physician, horticulturist, legislator, zoologist. Kirtland, in turn, gave the skin to Dr. Spencer F.

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

10,000 Birds

1) Action : Change law to allow the e-stamp to suffice as the requirement to hunt waterfowl for the duration of the hunting season. Modifying the art rules to include additional and appropriate bird species is an ideal way to raise that possibility. Issue 3: Purchasing a Duck Stamp should be efficient and easy.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It does fit into a medium backpack (though keep in mind that it’s heavy, almost 3 pounds) and definitely onto the backseat of a car. This is a hefty book, 560 pages long and dimensions of 6.3 inches, which makes it just a little too large to be a field guide. The design focuses attention on the photographs. .”

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

Animal Ethics

This sort of question can also be raised without benefit of hypothetical examples from future genetic engineering. On the above definitions the wool and the milk of such animals would not be animal products. If, on the other hand, the legs are produced in factory conditions, there is a moral objection. What is supposed to follow?

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What’s in a Name: What’s in a Baby Name?

10,000 Birds

Lark – Just plain Lark is in the sweet spot of obscure and old-timey but definitely legit as a name. Due to the law of parental irony, your child will grow up to play rugby and serve in Congress. So strike back by raising a new Zenaida, an empowered Zenaida who will conquer the birdy world in her own right!

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

10,000 Birds

After a slow start, enough chicks had been hatched and raised by 1991 to allow for the release of captive-bred condors in the wild in California. At least where these laws apply, no beer may call itself Kölsch unless it is brewed within 50 kilometers of Cologne and to strictly defined specifications. So, what is Kölsch, exactly?

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

10,000 Birds

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. The African or Angola Pitta is the holy grail of the Southern African birder and definitely the “most-wanted” bird in our region.

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