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Accessibility Matters II:  Birdability Q&A

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It turns out that humans are less likely to trample off the trail and damage plants and so on if the trail has a really obvious edge or other boundary. There is also some evidence that supports creating really clearly designated trails to help the local ecosystem. Just start!

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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She’s also written articles in scientific journals and nature/birding magazines and kept the public informed about the California Condor project with her many “Notes From the Field” for The Peregrine Fund newsletter. She also maintains a website of her writings on nature and conservation at Words for Birds.

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Good Idea: FlexPet

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Quarterly newsletters. Featured on National Geographic Channel’s show DogTown, Best Friends Animal Society works with members, individuals, humane groups and entire communities to set up spay/neuter, foster, shelter and adoption programs in neighborhoods throughout the country. A donation made in their name.

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

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One of the distinguished members of the Task Force was Paul Baicich, founder of the Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp, whose ideas from his January 2015 newsletter were actually incorporated into the Task Force Final Report. This is obviously where the FWS got the idea for their new proposed rule to alter the Duck Stamp Contest.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. They wrote books and published research.

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In Defense of Wildlife Rehabilitation

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The fisherman who rescues a merganser tangled in line, pierced with fishhooks, and brings it to a rehabber may write something in his next angler’s newsletter. They don’t, because humans are so vastly superior to animals – even child molesters, serial killers, and terrorists. A single life does matter.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

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With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps. Mangrove areas are disappearing and there are natural areas of savannah in addition to human-created grasslands. The Introduction also offers sections on Conservation , by Nick W.

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