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Have There Been Any Positive Aspects of the Malheur NWR Occupation?

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Incidents like this one, led by far-right militant, anti-government extremists, should be a concern of all Americans, especially birders, hunters, environmentalists, conservationists, and anyone else concerned with keeping public lands public. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

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A “Thank You” is All You Need

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Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities. The other day, I came at 5.40 am with an ornithologist friend of mine by his Lada 4×4. The Touareg is parked, but no one is to be seen.

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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

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Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. Having mobility issues, I bird by car only (or by canoe, but that is another story , of friendship and loss). Yet, the site is quite ruined.

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The Bluebird by John Burroughs

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He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. The mental pictures it makes are better than any movie.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. Accessorizing for birds.

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Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas

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Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. When hunters would fire into a flock, the survivors would wheel around and return to the dead and dying. But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course).

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