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What’s Up with the ABA?

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This strikes me as a puzzling communication strategy for an important issue. The ABA’s education programs promote birding skills, ornithological knowledge, and the development of a conservation ethic.

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

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Interestingly, “Getting Close,” a fieldcraft topic, is wedged in the middle there, after image sharpness and before light, emphasizing the importance of strategy, preparation, and awareness in the midst of thinking about ISO and exposure. Photography & Ethics & Me. I found that there were surprises in each chapter. ” (p.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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link] The strategies used by professional reptile keepers are only successful because they take into account the behavioral flexibility of the reptiles. Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. You can dislike something and still recognize the ethical significance of that animal.

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Squirrel Buster Plus

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As an urban homeowner with two Black Walnuts and a Ginko on the property, I have moments where a squirrel’s work ethic is hard for me to admire. Strategy, economy, and design stem from the understanding of such principals as applied to a specific context. Sun-Tzu’s teachings apply universal principals to the specific context of war.

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Prairie Falcon Attack on a Northern Shoveler

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One is his focus on ethical photography. The other is tied to this focus on ethical photography. I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore. To me, two things really set Ron apart from many other nature photographers.

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Birding Hluhluwe, South Africa

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For the authors of this study on the Sabota Lark , this makes them end the abstract of their paper with the slightly pompous and simultaneously slightly unambitious claim that “This study provided a foundation for future comparative studies on avian life-history strategies in larks.”

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.