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Stuck in the middle (of the AOU/COS meeting)

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Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. And it goes on and on, this is just a sampling.

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Crossbill Guides: Interview with Dirk Hilbers

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The project will take another year to complete, but in about a month from now, we should have the first samples finished on www.ecosim.nl. - This being said, we are currently investigating options to team up with a group of American naturalists to produce a series of guidebooks on North American areas.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.

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South Africa’s endemic birds

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DNA evidence then indicated that they are an ancient group mostly closely related to the bizarre and wildly different rockfowls and they were therefore contentiously placed in the Picathartes family, before finally finding a contented home in their own family, Chaetopidae.