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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

10,000 Birds

Raptor migration : More like rapacious bonanza, even those of us who have witnessed the Neotropical River of Raptors nearly fell out of our shoes when treated to several thousand Steppe Buzzards and Black Kites flowing overhead along with a healthy sampling of eagles, harriers, and other birds of prey! Waiting for the sandgrouse.