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Air Canada To Stop Shipping Lab Primates

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Thank you Air Canada! Today, more than 40 animal advocacy organizations across Canada praised Air Canada for its recent decision to stop shipping non-human primates into the country for use in research laboratories. Airlines in Canada must obtain approval from the CTA to revise their shipping guidelines.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Vote Now for Awesome Ornithology Projects!

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We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Please read and then vote for either Nick or Maria’s research! Would you support research on birds with just a click on Facebook? Maria’s Project.

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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

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There are four generally recognized groups within the complex, “ Myrtle ” ( coronata ) of eastern and northern North America, “ Audubon’s ” ( auduboni ) of the western United States and western Canada, “ Black-fronted ” ( nigrifrons ) of Mexico, and “ Goldman’s ” ( goldmani ) of Guatemala.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway?

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From Russia With Birds: The World’s Biggest Owl, “Zombie” Pigeons

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By braving double-digit-below-zero conditions, however, researchers learned that Blakiston’s Fish Owl favors salmon, and that it prefers nesting cavities in big, old-growth trees; when these trees die and fall into streams, they create waterflow patterns that are beneficial to the salmon. Conspiracy theorists, start your engines.).

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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages. Pibarot has yet to begin collecting data through testing rodents and he says that a clinical trial in humans is hypothetical at this point - at least a decade of positive results and funding would have to be established first.

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