Remove Homelessness Remove Hunting Remove Shelters
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Birding Flushing Airport

10,000 Birds

The old runway in particular is excellent shorebird habitat, and the open wet woodlands growing up from, for lack of a better word, fields, elsewhere on the property shelter nesting Warbling Vireos , Orchard and Baltimore Orioles , Yellow Warblers , Common Yellowthroats , Tree Swallows , Song Sparrows , and other species.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal. And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55). Stay tuned for Part Deux, and more sentiments I could never have crafted better.