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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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They are also hunted. Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves.

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