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Urban Birding in San Diego

10,000 Birds

My family visited San Diego every year as part of a Disneyland-SoCal Road trip to escape the rainy Christmases at home near Portland, Oregon. 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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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. James Siegel Portland, Me.,

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A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds

10,000 Birds

It took me a while to realize that Portland, Maine is not far away. After sightings and disappearances around Maine dating back to August, it has seemingly found a home in Deering Oaks Park, Portland, but has endured daily harassment from the local Red-tailed Hawk. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant.

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