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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

We were able to take a thoroughly enjoyable boat ride on Lake Chamo, whose shores teem with birds, including such typical African species as African Fish Eagle, Goliath Heron the world’s largest, Yellow-billed Stork and the incomparable Hamerkop , a species in its own family.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A.