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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And thanks to federal corn and soybean subsidies, factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Kristof’s column broke my heart. Government animal rights regulations may help.