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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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So, yes, there’s plenty enough information about migration in the book to justify the subtitle. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine.

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Murder Most Wildfowl: A Review of “A Dance of Cranes” by Steve Burrows

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But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. Rehabilitators also cooperate with law enforcement on illegal activity, and even monitor emerging diseases in avian species.

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Sometimes you get the bird…

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This is a roundabout way of introducing Australia’s most dangerous bird, because of course a country where an agonizing death lurk in every lake, river or law has a bird that can you kill you too. But the information was right, and daddy stopped chasing after me. And that bird is the Southern Cassowary.

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High Noon Birding in the Mountains of Los Angeles

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This is one of the Mormon Metalmark family, whose members all look alike, so opinions from more informed butterfly enthusiasts are welcome. I’m sure there is a law that White-headed Woodpeckers are always on the other side of the tree. ” So much for sandwiches.