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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

A sampling: “It was heartbreaking to watch (my cat) bring home between one and four birds a week.”. Will the people who determinedly allow their cats to slaughter wild birds use it? Birds birds and cats Birdsbesafe cat collars protect birds from cats' Three of my eight are prolific bird killers. Does Birdsbesafe work?

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter.