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Urban Birding in San Diego

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There are beautiful beaches, a plethora of amazing food and drinks, a multitude of family fun locations, a world-renowned zoo, and one of the biggest birding festivals in the US. Although the property has seen human impacts, there have been recent efforts to improve water quality and restore this important habitat.

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Cause an Uproar

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They are disappearing quickly due to habitat loss as well as conflict with humans. Everything from lions in Kenya to snow leopards in the Himalaya, the big cats all need our help. So of course we wanted to help spread the word about the Cause an Uproar initiative. Big cats in the world need our help.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.

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The Storks of Africa

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If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal.

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Africa’s endangered species

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The stunning head plumes of the Gray Crowned-Crane make it attractive to bird collectors and zoos; illegal collecting of wild birds is one of the reasons why this species is now considered Endangered. This plain used to be little affected by humans, being grazed by just a few cattle, goats and camels.

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Should is not a Solution

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The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo. I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. A hungry child should be fed.

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Guinness Brewery: Guinness Draught

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But while that holiday has come and gone, 2018 remains the bicentennial year of the first export of Guinness to the United States, an anniversary the brewery is commemorating with a special release of Guinness Draught in cans decorated with its famous Guinness “Zoo” advertising art from the 1930s. They thought it would be vulgar.

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