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Controversial Elephant Death at San Diego Zoo

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An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. This elephant's shocking death is another tragic example of how elephants suffer in inadequate and artificial zoo exhibits," said Catherine Doyle, elephant campaign director for the group.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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range largely consists of valuable real estate along the Southern California coast and urban development around San Diego and Los Angeles has eliminated much of its habitat. Thus, its listing has been contested by groups advocating more development. But its U.S. What was once sage scrub is now suburbs and highways.

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This Week in Bird(ing) News: The Good, the Bad, and the Huh?

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Sea World San Diego just welcomed the world’s first “test-tube” penguin. And the odd: If you’re in Silver City, NM, stop in for a dish of Yellow-billed Cuckoo Gelato at Alotta Gelato, which just won the “Birds Mean Business” award from local Audubon and conservation groups. Still craving more penguin news?

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Seeking Out Unwelcome Guests

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So when Nutmeg Mannikin was finally, at long last, added to the ABA list last summer, it was a foregone conclusion that those birders at the ABA’s San Diego rally, of which I was one, would need to make a trip out of our way to get it. They’re not supposed to be here. We shouldn’t want them here.

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FBI Lists Animal Rights Extremist as Most Wanted Terrorist

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Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted for alleged involvement in 2 bombings in San Francisco has been listed by the FBI as one of their Most Wanted Terrorists. San Diego has ties to animal rights extremist groups. San Diego wears eyeglasses, is skilled at sailing, and has traveled internationally.

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Lifer Ocean

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This month I was in San Diego, helping out with and participating in the American Birding Association’s San Diego rally. But before this month I had never been birding off the Pacific Coast, where the water and air are cooler and the birds are always around you. I can’t wait til my next one.

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Splitsville

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I continue to hope that history will someday repeat itself with the House Wren group. This Western Grebe was from just north of San Diego. While this Black-backed Oriole is a Mexican endemic. So is this Streak-backed Oriole , which is a close relative of the Bullock’s Oriole. A Transvolcanic Jay.

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