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We’re less than a week into 2018 and already birds (at least those that migrate in and through the United States) are worse off than they were at the end of last year. A new directive from the current administration wipes out protection engendered by President Obama.

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New U.S. Rule Extends Length of Eagle-Death Permits for Wind Farms

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Nevertheless, killing an eagle is a federal crime in the United States, and recently a wind energy company linked to eagle deaths settled with the federal government. (It’s not just eagles, either; other bird and bat species also fall victim to the turbines.)

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

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Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways.

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