10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

Some access issues are addressed by federal law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. My impression is that it is a fairly safe area and families are a common sight on weekends, as are school groups. Bush in 1990. An observation deck is between them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

southern border; and set regulations to waive environmental laws for building on public lands. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? S ierra Club Environmental Impact Brochure – with the list of laws being waived. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue. The Border Wall.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Animal rights groups are seeking leave to appeal to the high court in their ongoing fight to have Lucy the elephant moved to a warm-weather U.S. One of the appeal court justices wrote a dissenting opinion, saying the groups should have public standing in the case and it should go to trial. Excerpted from CTV News.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2018

We are spending some time here on my wife’s family property right on the water. My Father-in-law had worked with the DOC here to establish a managed wetland here on the property, and it has been well received by the very rare Brown Teal. This picture shows a good sized group of mostly Bar-tailed Godwits flying just at sunset.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2021

Only recently was it discovered that one group, which breeds on the Shetland Islands, flies across the Atlantic to winter off the coast of Ecuador – ten thousand miles away from its cousins who breed in Scandanavia and western Russia. Once it was thought that all Red-necked Phalaropes migrated overland to the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean.

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Critter News

MAY 23, 2011

An animal rights group based in the United States has ranked Quebec “the best province to be an animal abuser” in a report on Canada’s animal welfare record. From the Montreal Gazette.

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Critter News

MARCH 15, 2012

Quebec is not known for its animal welfare concerns or laws. Two political parties in Quebec are speaking out about the ritual slaughter of animals, but a Jewish advocacy group is confident that kashrut is not being targeted. From JTA, the Global News Service of the Jewish People.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2014

This June my brother-in-law and I took off to Kangiq (Cape Crauford), the western edge of of the mouth of Admiralty Inlet to Lancaster Sound. Luckily attacks are rare, but we made plans to stay in a refuge cabin at the point, and joined up with a group that had brought a dog, which acts as an early warning system.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold!

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Animal rights groups are calling for a ban on the sale of horse meat after disturbing video at a slaughterhouse in west Quebec was sent to the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition. Under Canadian laws, one shot is supposed to render the horse unconscious but it often doesn't happen. Excerpted from CTV.CA.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

…a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. Does it solve it?

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2011

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animal rights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

First there’s a story about the Madison Audubon Society ending up in court because of an election to vote in new officers and one person recruited over a 100 new members and signed them up the night of the annual meeting and ousted out the expected election offices which of course was followed by a law suit.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2008

There are dog fights and dog attacks in Portugal and, per the December 5 post , the government came up with some legislation without consulting any animal rights groups. In the Azores, where my family is from, I don't think there are any laws whatsoever. ANIMAL says that the legislation is not effective and is too loose.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Not that the iridescent sheen on an adult European Starling isn’t attractive in its way when the light hits it just right, but when your native avifauna consists of orioles and warblers and hummingbirds, nothing the starling is dressed in can really compare. Plus, they’re sort of ugly.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This was a clear violation of animal law. Next time, though, I might want to hook up with an animal rights group to protest. But within the last year, an animal cruelty investigation almost shut one down because spikes were being used to antagonize the bull. They are just stupid and really have nothing to do with religion.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. The System also helps implement the Endangered Species Act and other federal conservation laws. Individually, many NWRs protect crucial bird habitat.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Wayne Pacelle Humane Society Of The United States Louisiana Research 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. There is an operations and maintenance backlog of $3.3 million acres of Refuge lands.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

This leg of the trip was for the most part all about my father-in-law. That does not mean that we can’t make a stop or two along the way, right? Set right in the middle of a nice mix of brush, mature trees and agricultural areas, this place was loaded with birds. Speaking of Bank Swallows , here is one of those family groups.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It’s one thing to add some seed, suet and fruit to the grocery list right before a snow storm hits…but if you feel stressed because you have to make your own personal mix of seed for your birds six times a day or you have personally failed and perhaps sentences some birds to certain starvation in your yard? She added more corn.

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Bald Eagle Birds Deer Minnesota 240

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

To the Editor: As Mark Bittman rightly notes, California’s new farm animal welfare law presages what is coming for all farm animal industries nationally (“ Hens, Unbound ,” column, Jan. 1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.' FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2009

Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. This bill specifically makes for groups that might oppose it to use the court system to do so. The last such facility in the US closed in 2007. From the bill, which you can read here : Section 2.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In June 2012, I had the great fortune to visit Trinidad and Tobago in a group that included birder and artist Matthew Dodder. If you are one of these birders, and even if you are not, take a look at the newly published “ The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds “, and find out why I believe it is a must-have book for artist-birders.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. Sometimes the easiest path is not the right one.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

“Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998). Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Enough History – Back to the Future.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

I've had the pleasure of seeing her in action with adults and children and I profoundly admire her vegan education and animal rights activism. Nosey the African elephant is with Liebling Family circus in Florida, right now they are in Mount Dora, this outfit violates animal welfare regulations on a regular basis.

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Elephants Vegan Bullhook Laws 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

And a very happy Masemas for anyone who observes my son Mason’s birthday (probably not as many as the last group!) My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. My mother, mother-in-law, and godmother are all visiting right now. Wicked, right? Mama mia, no birding for me!

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Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

And no amount of donations to groups that supposedly want to abolish animal cruelty is going to make up for the fact that until you stop having animals killed for you you are part of the problem. They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions.

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Lions Animal Cruelty Cruelty Chickens 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Heartening as these developments are, there is also strong resistance from the food industry and from fake consumer-advocacy groups that are shilling for it.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

To the Editor: “ What’s Next in the Law? The Unalienable Rights of Chimps ,” by Adam Cohen (Editorial Observer, July 14): The Spanish Parliament’s decision to grant rights to apes is indeed groundbreaking, and will foster philosophical discussion about animal protection for some time.

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New York Times Humane Society Of The United States New York Apes 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In other words, we might want to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the proposed changes, either one at a time as a group. In law, there is often a similar approach, memorably articulated by Justice Louis Brandeis , who said “in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right.”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. And, some background on those laws, both in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 203

Animal Ethics

JULY 14, 2012

Whether individuals have legal rights depends on the laws and other legal background (e.g., the United States) citizens meeting certain requirements have the legal right to vote or run for elected office; in other countries (e.g., Libya) citizens do not have these rights. In some countries (e.g.,

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. Dr. Miller’s argument distracts from the real concerns over rBGH.

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