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Snipe and not Snipe

10,000 Birds

Painted Snipe have their own family, separate from the true snipes. If interviewed on day-time television, top of the producer’s agenda for discussion would be the titillating subject of sexual role reversal. It stopped, turned and crouched, showing the short, drooping bill and distinctive eye-marking of a Greater Painted Snipe.

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Birding Rockefeller State Park Preserve

10,000 Birds

This past Sunday was a hot sunny day in New York and the family and I took full advantage of it, exploring Rockefeller State Park Preserve, a pretty park in Westchester County, not too far north of the Bronx. No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Pure coincidence! We enjoyed butterflies, dragonflies, and sticks.

Kentucky 160
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An Embarrassment of Riches

10,000 Birds

I will start by telling you about encounters in Turkey with two special bird families. I really should have encountered these families in Mexico, as they both occur here. This visit to southern Spain, however, fell in the middle of raptor migration, so flamingos were not on my agenda. My only problem is, where to start?

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

10,000 Birds

Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. Federal water rights that underpin entire agricultural economies, and that are critical to some of the last family farms and ranches in America, will be in play. There are senators and congressmen voting to help states sell off public lands.

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Back from the West!

10,000 Birds

After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. I didn’t have much light to work with but a male Western Tanager can’t be ignored.

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On "Food Inc."

Animal Person

Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing. Then they yank the heads, slit the throats, and de-feather and gut the chickens.

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Social media can elevate your reward events

Sales and Marketing Management

Thanks to social media platforms and modern communication, the feeling of missing out on a good time has become more prevalent and contagious, as our friends, family and colleagues continue to share every thrilling (and. Incorporating socially driven, team-building activities into your annual meeting agenda can elevate engagement.

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