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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S.

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Bird Litigation: Spotted Owl v. Barred Owl

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However, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) broadly prohibits the “take” of any bird, which effectively means that a protected bird cannot be killed, harassed, or otherwise adversely impacted. They argued that the scientific research exception only applied to research on the animal to be taken.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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A Climate Change Crash

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Here, according to the research , there is. I will note briefly that climate science deniers are claiming that the actual reason for the collapse is that the Mohave Desert has been “filled” with windmills,and these windmills have actually killed all the birds. PNAS August 6, 2018. Not in the Mohave Desert.

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Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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To get an idea of how many mushroom species are around us, in 2018, the journal Mycologia published a checklist of North American fungi. Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. 28, 2018, [link]. Hey, it’s not just us!).

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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Thomas Mitchell had a brutal history of killing Aboriginal people, and in 2023 Birdlife International and the Royal Australasian Ornithologist’s Union officially renamed the bird. It’s a clunky system that only works IF you know the full name of the bird you are researching. A little late, but very well done.

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