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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

10,000 Birds

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. There was a time when our domestic pets were treated like objects.

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Count Your Chickens (In the Florida Keys)

10,000 Birds

” But I am not some crazy chicken-lover just trying to get respect for my pet rooster from birders. First of all, I don’t have a pet rooster. Their population apparently received a big boost in the 1970s when c**k-fighting was declared illegal and many fighting c s were released.

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