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MARCH 5, 2009

The Humane Society of the United States released the video scenes Wednesday, saying that’s only part of the documentation of what it claimed were 338 violations of federal law and policy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Laboratory. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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MARCH 1, 2022

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AUGUST 25, 2021

It was also to be expected that the first passerine to turn up would be the Louisiana Waterthrush. These were two different Louisiana Waterthrushes , but with the same posing preference… dark and distant! The Laughing Gul l that turned up later that same day, however, was quite a surprise.

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APRIL 18, 2021

Though he added Louisiana Waterthrush , Blue-gray Gnatcatcher , and Yellow-throated Warbler to his year list, Corey most enjoyed watching a Northern Mockingbird doing singing in the Rockaways. Corey enjoyed getting out on birding outings both mornings of the weekend, and was out in nature with his family both afternoons.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Another pair of Whoopers has been shot , this time in Louisiana. Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). The pair was part of a project aimed at restoring the birds to Louisiana. The female was killed but experts suggest the male will survive, although perhaps without the ability to fly.

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MAY 4, 2012

Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctuary in northwestern Louisiana. From The Washington Post. The former host of “The Price Is Right” donated $380,000 to create space at the Chimp Haven near Shreveport.

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MAY 4, 2010

This Louisiana Senator is just a slave to these oil interests and I'm sick of her. Tags: louisiana oil drilling 2010 oil spill endangered species. She's calling for MORE frigging oil drilling in spite of the catastrophe in the Gulf. I'd like to shove her face in a vat of oil and not bring her up for a long, long time.

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APRIL 16, 2009

They are at least admitting there are problems with standard operating procedures at New Iberia Research Center. Officials claim to be taking steps to correct certain problems. This web page also has a video with a tour of the facility, conducted by center staff.

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The Brown Pelican, the state bird of Louisiana, has endured a turbulent history along the Louisiana Coast. This tale of a single bird, and the compassionate people deployed to save him, shows how the process of saving one life restored a degree of humanity for the rest of us.

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MAY 4, 2010

Tags: louisiana 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico endangered species.

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MAY 25, 2010

Charges have been filed against seven members of Greenpeace who boarded an offshore drilling support ship in a Louisiana port and painted anti-drilling slogans in crude oil on the vessel’s side on Monday afternoon. Tags: louisiana animal enterprise terrorism act Stupid British Petroleum 2010 oil spill.

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MAY 20, 2010

Tags: louisiana oil drilling 2010 oil spill pollution.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

Well, a team from Louisiana State University managed to pull that off on 14 October, seeing an astounding 354 species in one day in Peru. How would you like to see a lot of bird species in a day? Like, more species than anyone else anywhere has ever seen in a day?

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APRIL 21, 2013

The photo above, one of mine, shows a Clapper Rail in Louisiana. Maley then goes on to examine the hybrid zone between Clapper and King rails in Louisiana, finding that the hybrid zone is very narrow (about 4 kilometers, or 2.5 King Rails occur widely in eastern North America, in eastern and central Mexico, and in Cuba.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

We saw our first Louisiana Waterthrushes of the season. So I now have a third site for this exciting bird. The Black-chinned Sparrow , a special bird that I can expect to see only at Las Mesas. did indeed turn up. I was shocked to see a Red-faced Warbler so early. Ricardo was shocked to see his first Red-faced Warble r.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Sad news out of Louisiana. Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie.

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APRIL 29, 2021

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MARCH 27, 2009

Tags: louisiana animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty new iberia research center animal welfare us.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Hurricane Nate looked set to disrupt my first visit to Louisiana. Reports predicted that we would make landfall in New Orleans at around the same time.

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JULY 7, 2018

This is where I saw my first Louisiana Waterthrush and Swainson’s Warbler. Louisiana Waterthrush. (I have seen it dry after recent extreme droughts.) You may have to stalk the single parking spot at this location; but the habitat makes it worth the effort to hover or walk. Photo by © William H.

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APRIL 17, 2012

Oil washes ashore at Venice, Louisiana. Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. May 19, 2010 Oil washes ashore on mainland Louisiana.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Spoonbills and ibises are stocky, colorful wading birds with distinctive bills: downcurved and pointed in the case of ibises, flat and paddle shaped in the spoonbills (above is my shot of Roseate Spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja ) near a breeding colony in Louisiana). Roseate Spoonbill ( Platalea ajaja ) in Louisiana © David J.

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DECEMBER 25, 2021

Louisiana Waterthrush. Not including the vagrants, these are the warblers that regularly frequent green space in Costa Rica: Wood-warblers of Cooler Montane Habitats. Cloud Forest near San Ramon. Similar to how this stream bird rolls at its summer home, in Costa Rica, this bird also frequents rushing forested waterways.

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MAY 24, 2010

Several pelicans were coated in oil on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, their usually brown and white feathers now jet black. Pelicans unable to fly due to being coated with oil. It's the Exxon Valdez all over again. Pelican eggs were glazed with rust-colored gunk, and new hatchlings and nests were also coated with crude.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Because of its large contiguous stand of bottomland hardwood forest, Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge was designated as critical habitat and serves as a corridor for the Louisiana black bear between Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge and Red River Wildlife Management Area. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Though Corey spent most of the day on Sunday birding Sandy Hook in New Jersey, seeing 73 species of birds, including four new species for him for the year, his Best Bird of the Weekend was the Forest Park waterhole in Queens, where he spotted his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. The wood-warblers are back! How about you?

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JUNE 3, 2010

A CBS News crew was threatened with arrest when it tried to photograph the spill, and a BP representative in Louisiana told a Mother Jones reporter that she couldn’t visit the Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge without a BP escort. That is the issue raised by this blog post. TP has the story in this repost.

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JUNE 15, 2016

First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In 1938, they were reduced to only 18 birds in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo flock and only 11 remaining in the non-migratory Louisiana flock. By 1950, the Louisiana flock was gone. Since there were only two birds in captivity when the Louisiana flock became extinct, its likely that the genetics of the non-migratory flock are lost forever.

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MARCH 15, 2009

This blogger, Earle Holland at Oregon State University, doesn't seem to believe the allegations coming out about the New Iberia Primate Center in Louisiana. He is the assistant vice president for research communications in the Office of University Relations. Here's his post about it.

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APRIL 22, 2020

A good winter will also include an Ovenbird, and at least one Louisiana Waterthrush. And, until recently, those forests also hosted Townsend’s , Hermit , Black-and-White , Virginia’s , and even a Colima Warbler or two each year. My forest, lake, and tropical scrub sites will have to live without me for a few weeks.

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MAY 7, 2019

Have time along the Texas-Louisiana coast? After noting as many species as possible, I high-tailed it back to the car. We drove slowly along the loop road, with the windows down, but the views didn’t compare to those from the boardwalk. I recommend stopping in as many of the wildlife refuges as possible.

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MARCH 18, 2010

These chimps are currently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center. This is the same place that was nailed by a Humane Society undercover investigation. Videos showed mistreatment of the lab animals. I just love the language used by the Research Center's spokesperson.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. The University of California, Davis is the focus of a major federal complaint charging it and two other nationally known university research centers have killed dozens of primates through traumatic injuries, veterinary negligence and other violations.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Based on the songs that surrounded us as we hiked Trail #15, the “Grand Canyon of the East” is awash in warblers, including my FOY Louisiana Waterthrush. I visited Letchworth State Park this weekend, renowned for a ridiculous density of breeding wood warblers. Was it the Least Bittern nearly flew into his head?

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