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What’s Up with the ABA?

10,000 Birds

T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. As I wrote in 2019 , the informational shortages that prompted the creation of the ABA no longer exist. If anything, birders confront too much information rather than not enough.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. In some cases, for example Jabiru, the information is tucked away at the end and can’t even be discerned from the range map. These are all informative and current. I didn’t.).

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Information is often highly detailed. Yellow Warbler fledgling. But special. Egg biology, from Part I.

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The Million Dollar Duck (2016) – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ?” ” Cartoon images by Ding Darling. Artistic composition.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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The director informed me that not only spit is apt to fly in such a situation; and at his urging we retreated. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?

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November is. Awareness Month

Animal Person

My inbox this month has informed me that November is Vegan Awareness Month! Who knew November was such a potentially-informative month? As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.

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