10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

'Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S. wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. The case involved the deaths of more than 150 birds, including 14 eagles, at two plants in Wyoming between 2009 and 2013.

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Farming Wyoming Eagles Killing 182

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

'Nor is it true that the worth of an animal''s life, any more than of a man''s, can be measured simply by the amount of "agreeable sensation," a fallacy often put forward by those who cage animals in menageries, on the plea that they are there well tended and saved from the struggle for existence. To live one''s own natural life, to realize one''s self, is the true moral purpose of man and animal equally, and the wrong done by the unnecessary cramping and thwarting of animal individuality, as in

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

'Did you find your weekend restful? Hope so, because the rest of the year tends to race to the finish line. We’ve all got a lot of eating, shopping, giving, receiving, traveling, celebrating, and giving thanks ahead of us. Hope you’re ready! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an incredibly cooperative Northern Fulmar photographed from the back of the boat during the pelagic trip he enjoyed on Saturday.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

'We have been experiencing some monsoonal weather recently and many a day we are faced with the encroaching black sky as shown above. We have started to carry an umbrella on our shorebird walks, but have yet to use it! Invariably the storm swings around over Roebuck Bay and we return home without getting wet… beyond the perspiration from the high humidity!

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Speaker: Steve Romanco

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

'You may know, or may have known and have forgotten by now, that Germany has had federal elections to the Bundestag this year, on September 22nd. As was the case in all elections I have witnessed so far, the opposition – this time mostly formed by the Greens and the Social Democrats ( SPD ) - had high hopes of kicking out the ruling coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU and the increasingly ridiculous Free Democrats ( FDP ).

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