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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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Look at the Maryland-based website Crow Busters , although I warn you you’ll need a strong stomach for the photographs. 4074) which would make it unlawful for “any person to organize, conduct, promote or participate in any contest or competition where the objective of such contest or competition is to take the greatest number of wildlife.”

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Fidelity And Guaranty home office building in Baltimore, Maryland. In the years that followed, Tom Cade worked with various birds of prey through two revered organizations, The Peregrine Fund and The World Center for Birds of Prey, linked in one sanctuary at the edges of Boise, Idaho.

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Dear Keith, Mylan, and Jonathan, My name is Miry and I’m from Potomac, Maryland. What makes the site special is that a portion of every sale is donated to animal rights and rescue organizations. First of all, I want to tell you how much I enjoy Animal Ethics. It is beautifully written with wonderful perspective.

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eBird Trip Reports

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I have found Trip Reports a useful way to organize checklists from birding trips. For example, in May, I was on the Maryland shore for a wedding and submitted several checklists for Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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Breast-feeding is so nutritionally superior for human infants that the World Health Organization recommends that infants be exclusively breast fed for the first six months of life and the American Academy of Pediatrics now urges mothers to nurse for at least a year and maintains that nursing up to three years is healthy.

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