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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2013)

10,000 Birds

I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. Denied a Ruff, I had to make to do with a very handsome, very obliging, very early Hooded Warbler at Oakland Lake in Queens. One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. This is why I hate twitching!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Jeremy Russell Director of Communications and Government Relations National Meat Association Oakland, Calif., But the people who raise and package beef share a commitment to aggressively finding and applying safety solutions that keep them out of our food. coli O157:H7 and other food-borne threats are tough, adaptable foes.