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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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As a result, the bird has a long history with the Endangered Species Act. CESAR had alleged that Dr. Zink would suffer professional and reputational injuries because FWS rejected his research, but the court found that inadequate. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.

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Millions of Animals Used in EU Experiments

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Around 12 million animals are used each year in the European Union (EU) for research purposes. This became clear from a report addressed at the European Parliament (EP) session on May 5–7, which seeks to vote on a directive concerning animal research. From the Epoch Times. I really hope this passes.

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Sad Fate for Rare Whale in Olympia, WA

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The animal is either a sei or Bryde's whale, said biologist John Calambokidis with Cascadia Research. The sei is endangered and is rarely seen off the West Coast. The Bryde's is a more tropical species not usually seen north of southern California." Both would be extremely rare.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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A short paper i n the Journal of the Natural History of African Birds points out shoddy research that ended up describing the Eurasian Hobby as a “hunter of dusk and dawn” It is not. Another paper hypothesizes that the Eurasian Hobby has “false eyes” at the back of its head, much like the Collared Owlet.

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