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West Virginia University to Build Animal Research Lab

Critter News

It will house rodents for use in experiments. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? From West Virginia Metro News. Setting up experiments to try and develop new insights that would be even before the drug development phase. Because it will create JOBS!

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ Smith’s Longspurs, Vermillion Flycatchers, Burrowing Owls, Long-billed Curlews, Virginia Rails, Black Terns, Crested Caracaras–there’s a bird here for every taste.

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