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Birds Are Gumming Up the (Public) Works

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As bird lovers, we’re happy that laws exist to protect birds, and that people are especially looking after protected species. Environmental officials believe the plan can be reworked so that the Plovers’ habitat is protected. But sometimes, what’s best for the birds and what’s best for the humans collide.

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Activists Continue to Target UC Animal Researchers

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California recently passed a law protecting animal researchers from animal activists. The communiqués read, in part: We were inspired by the recent passage of the 2296 bill and the raid of an anarchist infoshop in Oakland. In the short term at least, it's not working. As the vivisectors revel in their false safety, know this.

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My First West Coast Pelagic Trip

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I’ve been on a whale-watching trip in Orange County , twice gone out to Santa Cruz Island , and even visited Protection Island off the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Now I had come close to doing pelagic trips out west before. The whole plan was coming together wonderfully until the very end of our vacation.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011?

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On Sunday I’ll have a big day and try to bird all of Alley Pond Park (Queens, NYC), from APEC to Oakland Lake, the Oaks section, the kettle ponds and end at the walking trails in the southwest section of the park. Joseph Mar 18th, 2011 at 4:39 pm I’ll be birding Floyd Bennett Field (Brooklyn, NYC) Saturday. The proposal from U.S.

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