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Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part One: A Burrowing Owl?!?!?!

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Daisy was working late and my mother-in-law had kindly started to make me some spicy ramen for dinner. My first thought was that it was probably a hoax but I found the link and shared it to the New York Birders Facebook page, hoping to find out if anyone knew if it was the real deal. None of them did.

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Willow Ptarmigan in Jefferson County, New York!

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Next I had to find some co-conspirators to ride with all the way up to Point Peninsula, a twelve-hour round-trip from New York City. We crossed the Delaware Water Gap, the Endless Mountains, the Southern Tier of New York, and then, as I pushed my Ford Focus to its limits, we crossed the law and the law won.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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“Bird-friendly design” is becoming a common term in architectural and city planning circles and proponents can point to a successful initiative, the retrofitting of New York City’s Javits Center which reduced bird deaths by 90%. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. It’s not a bad idea.

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Back from the West!

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After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. From Boise we headed still further west, driving through all of eastern Oregon, racing to get to Shady Cove where my in-laws were meeting us.

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“The Center of the Universe”: Fremont Brewing: Universale Pale Ale

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There’s also an eBird hotspot for one of the best-known claimants to the title of The Center of the Universe: Times Square in New York City – though with eight species recorded, it certainly didn’t earn this title based on avian diversity or abundance.

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Little guy with big heart helping animals!

4 The Love Of Animals

Gala, held at Cipriani in New York City. Ready to respond at a moment’s notice, the HSUS Animal Rescue Team uses its equipment, expertise, and other resources to assist law enforcement agencies with investigation, evidence collection, and animal seizure as well to coordinate animal care, sheltering, and relocation.

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On the Erosion of Personal Responsibility

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We pass clean air laws, we tax the heck out of cigarettes, we sue the tobacco industry. In the food arena, a great example of this would be in New York City, where the health department has banned trans fats in restaurants. So if you go to New York now, you can't get trans fats in the restaurants.