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But…It’s a Canada Goose?

10,000 Birds

Luis Gonzalez is a Miami resident and IT major who was originally born and raised in Cuba. She’s from Maryland, so birds like Anhinga , Purple Gallinule , Short-tailed Hawk and Tropical Kingbird were all new for her. missing for her life list.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Fidelity And Guaranty home office building in Baltimore, Maryland. He came for the hawks. This was the world of Tom Cade early in the last century.

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Climate Change and Birds

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And, in that area there is something every bird lover will be interested in: I’ve recently heard that the Maryland Department of Natural Resources may be implementing a new policy dictated by the realities of climate change. This applies, I think, not only to marshes but to infrastructure. Because it is.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. For more detailed descriptions of the conditions in which farm animals are raised, see here , here , and here. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged. Running time: 12 Minutes. Trivial or insignificant reasons won’t do.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. The Newsweek article also reports that year before last, a Maryland woman breast-feeding in a Starbucks was asked to move to a restroom if she wanted to continue feeding her baby. When breast-feeding is not possible, commercial soy formulas are nutritionally adequate.

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