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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guideā€“A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 Well, you know I’m only joking about the life list. Birders are not, after all, stamp collectors. Well, not really. 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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