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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Know what else kills grassland birds? Planning on birding Kenya? In a nod to Dr. Evil, a utility company in Hawaii is using lasers to keep birds from its wires and poles. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches' If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S.,

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

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And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.