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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes).

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. many pesticides have aggressive, masculine, or other names of the like – I think it goes with the killing concept (I’m a scientist, not a marketer)).

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Nesting Eagle Killed in Portugal, Another Brilliant Move

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Portuguese environmental groups - including SOS Lynx, A Nossa Terra and Almargem - have denounced the deliberate shooting of the country's only nesting male Iberian Imperial Eagle. Tags: Stupid eagle portugal fox hunting. I come from a Portuguese family and I have no problem dumping on the Portuguese. This makes me angry. March 2009.

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

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From Latino Fox News. That move prompted an uproar in northern Mexico after animal rights groups argued the government was barking up the wrong tree, and they demanded the town stop what they called unnecessary “dog killings.” Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place.

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Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

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A hunting season on sandhill cranes vastly increases the chance that collateral kill of endangered whooping cranes will occur. Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

10,000 Birds

I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport.

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

10,000 Birds

Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. In the Far East they keep birds of prey which they use to capture other animals such as foxes and rabbits. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots.

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