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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. Or better yet, “Ecosystem.”.

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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This all came back to me as I read Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure because author Susan Fox Rogers was one of the two birders to find the Ames Henslow’s Sparrow. 144), though she admires Miller’s writerly productivity and naturalist’s patience. by Susan Fox Rogers. ISBN-10 ? : ? 978-1501762246.

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Wyndridge Farm Cidery: Crafty Cranberry Hard Apple Cider

10,000 Birds

But Wyndridge produces three other cider varieties, each labeled with an equally dapper rabbit, red fox, or cat – species I hardly associate with intoxicating inclinations, so I suspect the waxwing label wasn’t a comment on the occasional excesses of this species. Perhaps it’s only just getting started? Happy drinking and good birding!

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Judge Clears Way for HSUS Suit Over Fur Advertising

Critter News

and several other retailers over alleged false advertising over "faux" fur products. The complaint also alleges violations of the federal Fur Products Labeling Act and Federal Trade Commission Act, which also prohibit the false advertising and mislabeling of any fur product. The lawsuit, filed under the D.C.

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Michael Fox on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

All it establishes is that we should eat far less meat so that factory farms become obsolete and that, in conjunction with this, arable land should be turned over to the production of high-protein crops, where possible, so that world hunger can be alleviated somewhat.

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Montezuma Winery: Red Wing

10,000 Birds

One of the earliest varieties was a grape named the Catawba, thought to be a cross of the European cultivar known as Semillon and the wild American “fox grape” ( Vitis labrusca ), and apparently named after a native people from what is now the Carolinas.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

Critter News

But the problem is the high demand for these products. Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Sounds just awful. From Vietnam News. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said.

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