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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Check the nearest fruiting fig and you would be hard pressed not to find a few Red-eyed Vireos , Summer Tanagers , Baltimore Orioles , Swainson’s Thrushes , and a Scarlet Tanager or two. Selva Bananito was actually founded in the seventies but back then, it was a sizeable farm like any other.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

10,000 Birds

José Lobo de Vasconcelos has been the winemaker at Quinta do Casal Branco since 1986, and has spent much of his time experimenting with a range of grapes to find the varietals best suited to the estate and the wines it produces. The estate is also a stud farm for puro sangue Lusitano horses, considered one of the world’s oldest breeds.

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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

10,000 Birds

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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We’re Not Racists, So Why Aren’t There More Birders Of Color?

10,000 Birds

It’s been my experience that for every 1 person I know who thinks a certain way, at least 12 others in my circle agree. In a press release, Michael Skinner, a law enforcement officer with the US Forest Service said warning signs of drug trafficking in the parks included, “tortilla packaging, Spam and Tecate beer cans.&#

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds.