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eBird Profile Pages and the Power of Suggestion

10,000 Birds

If you are tracking your life list, that’s not a difficult sell for the folks running eBird from Ithaca, New York. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. Some states just seemed to taunt. territories, some of which are missing entirely.

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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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It's 1) a gory story with 2) the bizarre tie-in to the New York Post's inexplicable use of Travis' image in a cartoon about the stimulus package. And Connecticut needs to pass some serious laws to stop this kind of ridiculous behavior. There has been so much said about Travis the chimp this week. What were they thinking?)

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Requiem for a Bat: Mysterious Bat Deaths in the Rockies

10,000 Birds

Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. But that is supposedly still well east of us, having only been detected in Missouri this spring. Leaving it there did not seem like a good option.

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