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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Here in Portland, Oregon, it is more frequently too rainy rather than too cold to go birding, at least comfortably. I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. Your prior trips will inform your birding travel planning too.

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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. And for poor people, higher prices would mean less meat in their diets.