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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

4 The Love Of Animals

Mosquitoes bite humans and animals with no regard to species, and they bring along a number of illnesses. This illness is particularly dangerous since it can infect both humans and horses, causing damage to the central nervous system. This illness is another strain of encephalitis that affects horses alone.

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Kicking Off the Bird Count Season at Cangreja, Costa Rica

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The end results are steady lines of traffic marching to crowded beaches, more visitors to the country’s famed national parks, and a parade or two where drunken wannabe cowboys on prancing horses add local spice to the festive mayhem. We saw five species, all of which at one point came to the same fruiting tree!

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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

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I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. Can your hearts be so species-specific? If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/Feral Cat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? It sickens me. It’s natural.”).

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How I Become a Birder

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I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back riding to sailing, rafting, caving, climbing… all sort of things Willie Garvin was good at (minus the knife throwing). Somewhere at the very back of the list was birdwatching. Why at the back? What more would I ask from eBird?

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

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We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. However, this year, we opted for a site that could also give a chance at Great Jacamar and a few other key resident species in addition to migrants. Some were feeding on the ground.

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The Outer Banks after a Tropical Storm

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The Outer Banks are known for their spectacular sand beaches, and in the protected areas these sand expanses are wide and largely free of visitors during the early summer. They formed their little clumps along the water, all the species mixed together until a walker approached too closely. Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Next stop: the dunes.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Mustangs Stir a Debate on Thinning the Herd ” (front page, July 20): The Bureau of Land Management is charged with protecting wild horses and burros on the Western rangelands. Davis, an emeritus professor of animal science at Oregon State University, says the horses “damage” the environment. July 23, 2008