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Birding the Great Vly, Saugerties, New York

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The Great Vly is wonderful wetland that straddles the border of Ulster and Green Counties in New York State’s Hudson Valley. I spent this past weekend in Saugerties at my folks’ house in order to look for Easter eggs, let Desi enjoy time with his cousins, and generally have a good ol’ time with family.

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Urban Resource Institute and Purina Unveil the Purina Play Haven

4 The Love Of Animals

Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. He doesn’t recognize the public health and ecological harms caused by industrial food animal production methods, including increased antibiotic resistance, polluted drinking water, huge fish kills and impaired air quality leading to respiratory illness. That sounds like a win-win to us.

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Redtails in Tornados

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We’re in upstate New York, so this is unlikely, but still disturbing. while Dorothy’s family rushed into the basement. Solid food would have killed him, as he’d have used up the last of his fading energy trying to digest it. Yet another Red-tailed Hawk ! What should we do?” “What should we do?” There’s a tornado coming!”

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My Ten Best Birds of 2019

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I also spent a week in northwestern Costa Rica on a family vacation, a long weekend in Barbados, a week in Georgia, and two week-plus-long trips to visit relatives in southern California. A new bird for Queens for me is really hard to come by and this was one I had been waiting to show up in my binoculars for ages.

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Last Chance to Enter

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Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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