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Activists Set Fire to Idaho Fur Store

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No one was injured in the early morning blaze at Rocky Mountain Fur & Fireworks, a retailer in Caldwell, Idaho, about 30 miles northwest of the state capital.

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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

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Taking up the pertinent question of how the newest form of recreational aviation technology affects avians is Liz Greene, who hails from the beautiful city of trees, Boise, Idaho. In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders. That’s a lot, and the organizers of the safari did an excellent job of creating an environment that offered small group birding during the day and a birders party every night. I am a birder, after all.

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Week 31: Visits to Hart Mountain, Malheur and the surrounding areas.

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I only ran across this one Clark’s Grebe mixed in with in the groups of Westerns. This year they did not disappoint, as the first morning we sighted 17 birds in two groups. Next week we will continue north towards Idaho, and the Grand Teton area, and then finish the week in Yellowstone National Park.

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The Last Few Rays Before Extinction

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As for me, I didn’t see a passenger pigeon until visiting the World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, about three summers ago, a specimen tagged and strangely out of place in a haven for raptors. Gene Stratton-Porter ( Photo used with the permissions of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites ).

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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This makes no sense at all for a group that purports to be the national birding organization for the United States. Most Americans now live within the ABA Area, but by far the largest excluded group is the Puerto Ricans and the overwhelming majority of them are Hispanic. But progress is slow.

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Bird Litigation:  Greater Sage-Grouse and Oil and Natural Gas Leases

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Two conservation groups ( Western Watersheds Project and the Center for Biological Diversity ) promptly filed a lawsuit in federal court in Idaho, arguing that the policy was improperly created and that it unlawfully eliminated public involvement in BLM leasing decisions. Idaho 2020) (summary judgment). Supreme Court.

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