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Shutting Your Trap

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The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. I’d released birds there.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights? No,” he said.

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Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus

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Listed as a Species of Special Concern in New York and as threatened or endangered in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Poocetes gramineus is in trouble in the northeastern United States and, considering the decline shown in Ontario’s second breeding bird atlas, in eastern Canada as well.*

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. That means there were a lot more nuthatches around this spring to breed and that means that there are lots and lots more nuthatches to irrupt across the United States right now. But just how much have Red-breasted Nuthatches shown up since their irruption started in August?