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Pelican Release with International Bird Rescue

September 25, 2013 by Larry 2 Comments

There are advantages to being a “Pelican Partner” for International Bird Rescue! First, you get to tour one of their California centers, you get...

Birds, Conservation

Shutting Your Trap

September 20, 2013 by Suzie 6 Comments

This is the kind of insanity that goes on with leghold traps. A few years ago my friend Astrid called me on the phone....

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Feral Cats in American Cities

September 17, 2013 by Greg 1 Comment

The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance. This got me wondering what other cities were doing. So I put together a...

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Wildlife and Life Celebrations

August 23, 2013 by Suzie 6 Comments

Recently a baby was born in North Carolina with Trisomy 13, a chromosomal abnormality so severe most carriers die at birth. As the baby...

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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?

August 20, 2013 by Greg 4 Comments

Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor disparate. Twenty two species...

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Lawns Should Go the Way of the Dodo

August 12, 2013 by Corey 10 Comments

I agree very strongly with Hamilton Nolan. This, especially, is a nice paragraph: Lawns are a false idol. They represent the ancient American ideal...

Crowning fire in spruce forest -- Karen Murphy

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Fire and Rain

August 2, 2013 by Carrie 1 Comment

This morning it is drizzling. It rained hard last night, with hail and funnel clouds in Billings and lightning all along the storm’s path....

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Is It So Hard To Understand Why Birders and Wildlife Conservationists Don’t Buy the Duck Stamp?

July 17, 2013 by Larry 37 Comments

Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) photo by Larry Jordan The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1,...

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