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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

My mind and spirit are continually tested by outrages, from the countless dead innocents in current wars to the limited life prospects of my son’s first-grade classmates with drug dealers for parents. Sandy Asirvatham Baltimore, Md., Were I also to internalize the pain experienced by animals, I’d simply shut down.

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Overload (and Other Fall Birding Highlights in Costa Rica)

10,000 Birds

Other wintering passerines that have arrived include American Redstarts , Northern Waterthrushes down in the mangroves, Louisiana Waterthrushes (as one might expect, sticking to rushing highland streams and rivers), tons of Yellow Warblers , Yellow-bellied Flycatchers , and Baltimore and Orchard Orioles among others.