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Enjoy Innovative Electronic Music = Help Endangered Birds

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Produced by the Shika Shika label, A Guide to the Birdsong of Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean aims to promote birds and musicians from this region while raising funds for bird conservation. As for the music, while listening to some sample tracks, I found myself enjoying the blend of bird sounds and easy-going music.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it raised its chicks? Or how gracefully it flew?

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National Justice for Animals Week

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From the better late then never category, the ALDF is having a National Justice for Animals Week to raise awareness about animal abuse. ALDF was founded in 1979 with the unique mission of protecting the lives and advancing interests of animals through the legal system.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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How it raised its chicks? The preferred alternative to collecting a bird is to take photos and a blood sample. One look at his bio and you know he’s trouble. Says the prosecution to this: “Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food? Who its predators were?

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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I compared a random sampling to the bird atlas maps offered on the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) web page and found inconsistencies, perhaps because the book’s source was BirdLife International. .” and population estimate above the map and the bird’s most likely habitats below the map. The maps are problematic.

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Stop to Smell the Giant Parasitic Roses

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In fact, pretty much all there is of them are the bodies hidden inside the stems of jungle vines of the genus Tetrastigma (relatives of the wine giving grapes, the products of which I am sampling now), and the flowers. The trick to protecting this species has been tourism, which has raised awareness of its plight.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. For the same reason that other invasive do better than the natives, feral Cats outhunt native predators, and native prey are not as protected against them. Unless we put them there.