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What’s in a Name?

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It was Montagu who first realised that the “Ring-tail hawk” and the gray male Hen Harrier were the same species, and that the bird he called the Ash-coloured Falcon was a different species to the Hen Harrier, an impressive achievement at that time.

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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Even the fact that his byline originally read “Ted Williams is editor-at-large for Audubon magazine” does not seem like it would be much of an issue, especially as it was subsequently revised to read “Ted Williams writes an independent column for Audubon magazine. Pretty standard.

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

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This years’ judges for the competition were: Sophie Uliano, author of New York Times bestseller Gorgeously Green; Summer Rayne Oaks, model, spokesperson, and expert for Discovery Network's Planet Green; Brita Belli, editor of E/The Environmental Magazine; and Josh Dorfman, author and host of The Lazy Environmentalist on Sundance Channel's The Green.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

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I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds. I mumble the species’ name over and over something like this: that’s a *&$#^ Great Gray Owl! –Bill Thompson III.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound. They show how individuals of different species display compassion and empathy for those in need. the Spring 2011 issue of YES!

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Keep your Taxonomy out of my Field Guide!

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And since April this year, I strongly believe that these places should be mutually exclusive: The place for taxonomy is a magazine and an armchair. You see, the species in my field guides, as in the vast majority of field guides everywhere, are in taxonomic order. The place for bird identification is a field guide and a field.

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