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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? “The Birdsbesafe® collar is highly effective at reducing bird deaths,” she writes. Three of my eight are prolific bird killers. Does Birdsbesafe work?

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Highs and Lows from the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race in Eilat, Israel

10,000 Birds

Raptor migration : More like rapacious bonanza, even those of us who have witnessed the Neotropical River of Raptors nearly fell out of our shoes when treated to several thousand Steppe Buzzards and Black Kites flowing overhead along with a healthy sampling of eagles, harriers, and other birds of prey!

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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.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).

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