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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”. I want all of the above,” wrote Gay in Virginia. Charitable Things.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain). It is reproduced in “Mrs.

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Welcome, Wood Warblers!

10,000 Birds

What my previous experience had not prepared me for, was that this summer I would see many of those species for the first time all at once. It was not easy to get photos, both because the cloud cover was dense, and because I was protecting my camera from water damage. Of course, one never limits oneself to a single taxonomic family.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. My emphasis] There are other reasons why families are looking more favorably at plant-based choices. Sadly, Gillette's experience is not unique. How sick and twisted is that.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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I strongly suspect that the rate of attrition on this Loon family is inversely proportionate to the abundance of ducklings in the bay. Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. Sometimes that one reaches adulthood, but just as often it disappears. More alarm calling. Apparently.

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Birding in Costa Rica, Birding in Guatemala

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After a brief look at a map, my rough guesstimate is that the territory from Guatemala and Belize south to the Darien gap is roughly equal to New England, or Florida and the eastern parts of Georgia and the Carolinas north to the Virginia line. Fewer tanagers : Many more member of this technicolor family occur in Costa Rica.