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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

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In Costa Rica, they can take the form of everything from toucans (think crows with giant shark inspired beaks) to herons and monkeys. Was it a young, inexperienced bird that grew up in the wet woods behind some subdivision in Ohio? The Collared Aracari is a small toucan with a sharp beak.

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UC Davis Named in Criminal Complaint for Mistreatment of Lab Animals

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sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group. SAEN said UC Davis is responsible for the deaths of at least 14 monkeys over an 11-month period from June of 2008 to April of this year, and that the deaths violated federal law. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

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Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. We were in the right places at the right times, this is how two birders from Ohio and myself saw this majestic trio of birds. This curassow is great.

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Weekend Protest Against the Oregon National Primate Research Center

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In support of National Primate Liberation Week, the Portland Animal Defense League hung a banner that read "OHSU: Stop Killing Monkeys Now!" Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

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I’ve rushed to spring reports of these birds in Columbus, Ohio’s Greenlawn Cemetery. It had become a joke among my birding pals here in Ohio, especially within the friendly confines of The Ohio Ornithological Society. Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! But not me.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. We know what those large flocks were like. Children screamed and ran for home.

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