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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Fidelity And Guaranty home office building in Baltimore, Maryland. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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The economic impact of refuge visitation is broad: Recreational visitors pay for recreation through entrance fees, lodging near the refuge, and purchases from local businesses for items to pursue their recreational experience. Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 Bear River MBR (Utah): 158,000 visits generating $4.1

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Birding’s Biggest Dips

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All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. No luck but Mike knew he could get the “predictable” Kelp Gull at Sandgates, Maryland as the tide began to pull out at Bombay. That most dreaded of disappointments. That bird can then be referred to as a”dip”, the noun version of the word.

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Birding the Battlefields

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Meade at Gettysburg (Joy Oakes/NPCA) Highlights From: Antietam National Battlefield, MD – The battle was fought in western Maryland in September 1862 and resulted in 23,000 casualties. Nick Lund , formerly at birdDC and then the Birdist , should be no stranger to readers of 10,000 Birds.

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A Red-naped Sapsucker and a Townsend’s Warbler

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It prompted a lot of questions, many of which I had previously answered by simple supposition and presumption, but which now became highlighted as inadequate in the light of this experience. How many well sites does a sapsucker maintain? How often does he do the rounds? Does he vigorously defend his food source?

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals.

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Bird Sex Voyeurs

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As a clumsy person, she enjoys the experience of literally stumbling through nature, learning as she goes, experiencing the magic of finding something interesting. She teaches anthropology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA, and lives in Maryland with her husband and not nearly enough pets. I’ve hit an all-time low.