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Highlights from a Cancelled Pelagic Trip in Costa Rica

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They might be regular in South Texas but not in Costa Rica. Another vagrant that has been hanging out in Costa Rica, an individual of this duck species from either Peru or the Galapagos has been living at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales for more than a month. Tailless or not, we were pleased to see this uncommon bird.

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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

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It just would not have been possible with our her determination, organization, foreign language skills, money management, incredible bird spotting ability (even at 70+ MPH) and her moral support that kept me going when I was at my most tired. Tom and Connie Unsicker at Estero Llano State Park in Texas. John Brush in Alamo Texas.

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Manfred Kuehn on Kant's Cosmopolitanism

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His transcendental idealism, at least in morality, ultimately is a political idealism, in which attaining the greatest good is not something that will be accomplished in another world but is a task to be accomplished on this earth. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth).

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

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In the name of moral consistency I became a vegetarian four years ago. Chantelle Wallace Austin, Texas The irony of this article, which is reminiscent of Irish author Jonathan Swift's suggestion of eating "excess children" to shock and awe his readers, isn't lost on an intelligent reader.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

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Since morally decent individuals oppose treating animals inhumanely for no good reason, factory farming is becoming an increasingly hard sell. According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. There is evidence that a unique Canadian prairie population of lesser sandhill cranes is being selectively wiped out, since they migrate over the most heavily hunted areas of Texas. It is OK for people to like to hunt.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

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I feel that thanking your own baby for moral support in the acknowledgment section of a Ph.D. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D. thesis – as she did – is a bit much though. Connecticut. New Jersey. North Dakota. Rhode Island. South Dakota. Washington. Wisconsin.