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Responsible Birding in Colombia with Jaguarundi Travel

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We want to help the birding tourism industry come back strong from the COVID pandemic. 10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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

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conservation legislation and regulation, a tool used to protect birds from irresponsible hunting, industrial intrusion and incidental take, habitat loss and pollution, and to encourage best practices by everyone, from birders to corporations. Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training!

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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I’ve done what I can to support the bird industry and modern ornithology in Honduras with my book and bird-guide training courses. Book placement in schools would be targeted to sites in the vicinity of national parks and other protected areas which act as a stronghold for a large percentage of the country’s precious avifauna.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? If it is, then waterboarding should be protected as US-American culture. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks.

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Oban Distillery: 14-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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The name in Scots Gaelic is An t-Òban , meaning “The Little Bay” and before the town grew up around the distillery in the nineteenth century, Oban was the site of a small fishing industry which benefited from a well-protected, horseshoe-shaped harbor opposite the Isle of Mull.

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HollyWoof Gift Bags Spoil Celebrity Dogs!

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Products to help with dry skin, smells, training, and even fine art pieces were included. In case there are accidents, celebs can temporarily turn to Star Struck Pets and their Hollywood Pads PAW Shaped Training Pads for Dogs. There were a lot of other great goodies in the gift bag! And of course, there were treats too!

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