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In the end, the only ways to be certain you’ll stay current with your favorite blogs in this day and age are to either visit the blog daily or subscribe to an email newsletter. Subscribe to our email newsletter and you’ll receive the full content of the previous days posts at 8am EST every single day for free.

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Z. Alexander Brown: Uncaged – Cabernet Sauvignon (2017)

10,000 Birds

This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State. Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year.

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Canadian Council Says Mouse Pain Study Was Ethical

Critter News

But he said in the case, the pain was necessary and scientifically justified.However, Leslie Norins, the publisher of the newsletter that led to the council's investigation, questioned Mogil's research methods. "No one likes putting animals in pain," said Mogil, who holds a Canada research chair in the genetics of pain.

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McKee Project Expands Work into Guatemala and Other Latin American Countries

Critter News

I recently subscribed to their newsletter which comes out in both Spanish and English versions. At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama.

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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?

Critter News

I just signed up for the e-newsletter. We'll see. The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research).

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Egg Companies Accused of Price Collusion

Critter News

sales and arranging instead for their export, United Egg helped tighten domestic supply and drive up the price of eggs across the country, according to newsletters and other documents that United Egg sent to its members. By removing a small fraction of eggs that would have been bound for U.S.

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White Winners

10,000 Birds

Let’s find out who the lucky winners were… The first way to win a copy of Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White was simply to subscribe to the 10,000 Birds free daily email newsletter, a prize in and of itself! From a pool of over 800 subscribers, Mary White emerged victorious.

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In Defense of Wildlife Rehabilitation

10,000 Birds

The fisherman who rescues a merganser tangled in line, pierced with fishhooks, and brings it to a rehabber may write something in his next angler’s newsletter. The homeowner who cuts down a dead tree and seeks a rehabber’s help with the fallen nest of owlets may bring it up at his next Town Board meeting. A single life does matter.

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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

10,000 Birds

They produce an annual newsletter to tell readers the current status of several species. Foraging Andean Flamingo (Photo: Emily Chin – Flickr). Conservation organizations such as the Flamingo Specialist Group is actively trying to inform the public on the vulnerability of flamingos.

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Good Idea: FlexPet

4 The Love Of Animals

Quarterly newsletters. Every FlexPet customer will receive a year membership to the Best Friends Animal Society which helps provide a year of quality care for an animal at the sanctuary. Special members-only rates for area accommodations should you or your gift recipient like to visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

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Waterbirds that bred on Cyprus this year

10,000 Birds

If you want to join BirdLife Cyprus click here , or to only subscribe to the monthly newsletter then click here. This article was included in this month’s BirdLife Cyprus In-Flight e-News email.

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My Uneventful 3rd Blogiversary

Animal Person

A simple design with room for video, secure donations, a blog, capturing e-mail addresses, a twitterfall or something like it, social networking buttons, pdf newsletters, a calendar of events, volunteer information, lots of pictures and lots of space. Luckily, we have a logo. Joomla, WordPress and GoDaddy were suggested so far.

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The ABA’s 50th Anniversary and Information: From Scarce to Abundant

10,000 Birds

In that world, a mimeographed newsletter was a giant leap forward. Thus, at that time, birding information was scarce and local, distributed, if at all, by individuals or rudimentary networks of birders. Of course, that world no longer exists. The internet has been game-changing for birding, just as it has been disruptive in other fields.

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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

Finally, in my e-mailbox this morning, and probably in yours, was the Care2 newsletter, including a link to a column about a restaurant in Arizona that will soon serve burgers made from lion meat. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions. They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason.

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On Children's Books, Introverts & Films

Animal Person

If there's a local group that is in need of a skill that you have (grantwriting, newsletter writing, website development, photography), I'd imagine that's a possibility. Letters to the editor, blogging/podcasting/vlogging all come to mind as they don't involve interaction with other people (that's the problem in this instance).

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Dr. Smith and my plovers

10,000 Birds

2 pp 196-202 Arctic Gulls 32 Years Later: A Reply to Snell, Smith, 1991, Colonial Waterbirds, Vol 14, No. 2, pp 190-195 Polymorphism in Ringed Plovers, Smith 1969, Ibis, Vol 111, Issue 2, pp 177-188 The Larus articles and other criticisms are listed in the Montgomerie and Birkhead paper.

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Birders are Freeloaders

10,000 Birds

Baicich breaks it down in his Great Birding Projects newsletter: …expenditures for some important bird-watching items have gone up considerably since 2006. Drill into the numbers and you’ll find that birders and wildlife watchers are making significant and growing contributions to various commercial sectors.

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Cyprus forests and avian inhabitants

10,000 Birds

The most recent BirdLife Cyprus newsletter had a feature article that was just too good to pass up comment and elaboration on: Our avian forest gems … (English names emphasized by me) Cyprus, although only 16% of its land mass is covered with forest, hosts more than 34 species of forest birds, 15 all-year residents, eight migratory breeders and (..)

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The Prairie Progress

Animal Ethics

Here is the latest issue (winter 2006) of The Prairie Progress, which is the newsletter of Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary.

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

10,000 Birds

One of the distinguished members of the Task Force was Paul Baicich, founder of the Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp, whose ideas from his January 2015 newsletter were actually incorporated into the Task Force Final Report. This is obviously where the FWS got the idea for their new proposed rule to alter the Duck Stamp Contest.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

10,000 Birds

I am always interested in the stories behind the making of the books I review, so I spent some time reading the newsletter, The PennsylAvian Monitor , published for volunteers during the 5-plus years of the atlas project. Mulvihill was Project Coordinator of the Second Atlas and also involved with the first one.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

I am attaching our “Blog Pawsitive” newsletter that will give you more information about why AnimalWork.org is so awesome. Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions about AnimalWork.org , just want to say hello, or to recommend an animal-friendly non-profit that you think we should support. Be Pawsitive!

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

We would be pleased if you would support us by announcing the book in your Blog (Newsletters, Website etc.). We really appreciate it! Thanks a lot! Kind regards from Heidelberg, Germany Matthias Müller Interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tierethik Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Deutschland

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. They did breeding bird counts, breeding bird atlases, Christmas Bird Counts, and became active members of the Linnaean Society of New York and other nature organizations. They wrote books and published research.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea–A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

This information comes from the January 2017 issue of the HBW Alive Newsletter ; aside from a thank you in the Acknowledgements section, there is little information in the book itself on which of the 27 artists listed on the title page are responsible for which sections.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Tessaglia-Hymes that originally appeared in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s newsletter Birdscope, Spring 2006, [link]. (e) (d) Charley Harper talks about his creative process and his use of field guides and skins in an interview with Diane L.

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