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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. Or the absence of legal protection. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe.

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Santa Paws Drive 2012

4 The Love Of Animals

This year’s goal is to raise $1,000 in cash donations for each shelter ($6,000 total) plus oodles of toys and treats! Forever Home Feline Ranch – Springfield, Illinois. Foundation of Animal Protection – Fuzesabony, Hungary. With your help of course! Castaway Critters – Blairsville, Georgia. Cat Shelter – Cumberland, Maine.

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