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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Know what else kills grassland birds? Then you might benefit from a new program training birding guides. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif., Planning on birding Kenya?

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"The Cove" Continues to Disturb

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The film’s protagonist, Ric O’Barry, who trained the animals that played TV’s Flipper before he had a change of heart, indicts businesses like Sea World as being either overtly or tacitly complicit in the cruelty. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.

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Layover in Singapore

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Anyone with more than a couple of hours to kill could easily make a quick birding foray out from the airport. Have a small amount of Singaporean dollars to pay for taxis, trains and drinks. Taxi v SMRT – The SMRT is the excellent, clean, safe, reliable, cheap transport system of Singapore.

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Transit in Dubai

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Many people find themselves with a few hours to kill during transit and could potentially add a few ticks to their trip list as they pass through. Safa Park can be visited in the confidence that you will easily be able to get a train or taxi back to the airport. Better still contact one of the guides from the UAE Birding contact list.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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How difficult is the place to reach in terms of planes, trains and automobiles? Some of these islands cannot be reached by any mode of transport except a long ocean crossing and some are well over a thousand miles from the closest human habitation. Basically, if you can fly or drive there, it doesn’t count.

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

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Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). Congress and Senate who recognized the need to protect the birds. But this is not a hagiography.