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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

10,000 Birds

He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park. The end matter includes a glossary and references cited section, but sadly lacks an index, making attempts to find specific information within the book even harder.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

A recent study of a multiyear, peer-reviewed research project, conducted in Texas, indicate dove hunters using shotshells loaded with lead pellets enjoy no advantage in effectiveness over those using shotshells firing non-toxic steel pellets of similar or slightly larger size. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. of deaths in the same study were from gunshot wounds (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). References. of Snowy Owl deaths (Kerlinger and Lein 1988).

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