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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

10,000 Birds

Researchers studying the Fork-tailed Drongo (like the one above spotted by Redgannet) found that these birds essentially “cry wolf” to steal the food of others. Not a fan, however: some inmates on Death Row in Ohio. But our new nest is, at last, well on its way to getting feathered.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

billion a year between 1997 and 2005, totaling nearly $35 billion, according to researchers at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Jules L Garel Columbus, Ohio, July 31, 2008 In the past decade, for instance, we have doled out more than $3 billion in direct subsidies to large-scale livestock producers.