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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S. But this is not a hagiography.