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Birding in the Silly Season.

10,000 Birds

When we got home, she laid me out for my medicated nap and called in the professionals that you see credited beneath the photos. Has Black-browed Cardinal ever been described to science? Courtesy of Yurgen Kellers ). There was no stopping me now. Vermillion Flycatcher? Have a great summer, whatever you get up to.

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40 Ways to Help Lab Animals

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When you read stories in major newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek, be wary of simplification, bias, and a tendency to support traditional views indifferent to animals’ interests. For sleuthing on animal experimentation, you will want to visit a library with good science holdings.

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A Problem with Gulls

10,000 Birds

It was very touching to read a comment from Mayr to a more non-scientific article by Liebers & Helbig in a German birdwatching magazine about the Herring Gull not being a ring species, where Mayr applauded them and was happy not only over but beyond the moon about the research.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

5, 2009 The writer worked from 1978 to 1990 at Consumers Union as a health and science writer for Consumer Reports Magazine. Imagine if I and the rest of the medical profession said we had to look at the entire pharmaceutical and surgical supply industry’s needs, not just our patients’ health. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,