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Good News for the Alamagordo Chimps!

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The chimps have been free from testing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility at Holloman Air Force Base since 2001. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer.

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Want to Go Bird Banding in Amazonian Peru?

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Deadline for Great Giveaways About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. I worked as a guide and on macaw projects in Tambopata in 2001 and 2002 and the diversity is simply astounding.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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Like Peterson’s Hawks of North America, 2nd edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), which Clark co-authored with Brain K. I am guessing that the term ‘raptor’ is used in the title to denote wider coverage than ‘hawk,’ which is sometimes limited in common usage to hawks and eagles, leaving out falcons, New World vultures, and Osprey.

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A Question of Migration

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Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001. Bird migration: Magnetic cues trigger extensive refuelling.

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. What an ugly sentence that is.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In 2001, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that irradiating half the meat and poultry consumed in the United States would mean 900,000 fewer cases of food-borne illness and 350 fewer deaths each year. He said, “I have to look at the entire industry, not just what is best for public health.”

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Happy Global Big Day from Costa Rica!

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When we scuff our knees and test the resiliency of our joints to peer into a bush at a Swainson’s Warbler in an urban park? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ?