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Osprey in Missoula

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The Hellgate Canyon nesting platform has a nestcam trained on it. So does another located at Dunrovin Ranch (in the background of which you can occasionally see poet Mackenzie Cole and others of my MFA buddies working on horse training.) Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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But for a while one constant in his life was his grandfather’s farm, a far-off stretch of land in Comanche County, Texas. Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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Royal Decree Issued in Spain Over Animal Welfare

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In the decree the Spanish Government outlines a training and publicity initiatives to promote new methods of production to farmers and the public as well as a timeline to receive and investigate plans for conversion as well as committing €300m in loans for farmers to convert to enriched facilities.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. Rats had previously preyed on eggs and young of practically every defenseless seabird on the island, and had taken to even attacking adult albatross as they sat on their nests.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training!

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles? Like its distant island neighbor to the north, Tristan can only be reached by ship and its population of 264 people rely on farming, fishing and supplies from fishing vessels that arrive from South Africa about 8 times a year.

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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

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A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs. The material on Bermuda is particularly engrossing, illustrating what it is like to be a researcher in a remote area of the seemingly-glamorous Bahamas, studying birds and counting berries at sites called the Goat Farm and Dead Dog Road.

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