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British Center Working On Animal Replacement in Research?

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I just signed up for the e-newsletter. The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. She’s also written articles in scientific journals and nature/birding magazines and kept the public informed about the California Condor project with her many “Notes From the Field” for The Peregrine Fund newsletter.

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Canadian Council Says Mouse Pain Study Was Ethical

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I understand that, per the researcher's words, you have to create pain to study pain, but was this study really necessary? The research in question took place over many years and involved inducing various degrees of pain in mice using methods such as dipping their tails in hot water or injecting them with mustard oil or vinegar. "No

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

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Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter. They wrote books and published research. It will chiefly be of interest to birders who bird the Bronx and to ornithologists and researchers in related fields who plan to study the birds of New York City or do comparable studies.

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

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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

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For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State.

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Animal Ethics

It should support a stronger attention in research and teaching and should guide as the latest reference for all those who are dealing with the moral status of animals and related questions. We would be pleased if you would support us by announcing the book in your Blog (Newsletters, Website etc.). We really appreciate it!

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