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Slowing down Chimney Swifts

10,000 Birds

Birds that had been banded in Nashville, Tennessee. I raised my camera. Some organizations have even built nesting and roosting towers, artificial chimneys that serve as a site for the swifts in lieu of residential dwellings. And thus, the wintering grounds of the Chimney Swift were discovered. The conditions were perfect.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. For this to happen, subsidies that keep animal feed artificially low, and encourage producers to raise as many animals as possible, should end. This is stupid. Human beings, like dogs, are omnivores.