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Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

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This kid is a biochem major at the University of Southern Mississippi. Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing. Interesting that animal research is not cruel or inhumane because it benefits US. Listen to this.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Or how gracefully it flew? Who its predators were?

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

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Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. And there are the birds.

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My 2013 Birding Year in Review (With My Top Ten Birding Moments!)

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The Mississippi Kite certainly didn’t hurt either but it couldn’t top the awesomeness that is more insects than you can count all making eerie noises. (It’s Checking out Red-breasted Blackbirds at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station. Birding Staten Island with Jeff Gordon during the 17-Year Cicada Explosion.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Seawatching: A Review by an Aspiring Seawatcher

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It is both discouraging and exciting to read that little is known about waterbird migration along the Mississippi River. This makes researching a species much more time consuming than it should be. Hopefully, those regions without top ten lists will soon be filled in.

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Fall Hawk Migration Hotspots

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Mississippi Kite. Super Hot-spot: Hawk Ridge, Duluth, MN – Mississippi Flyway. Super Hot-spot: Hawk Ridge, Duluth, MN – Mississippi Flyway. The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Super Hot-spot: Corpus Christi, TX – Central Flyway.

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Birds of Prey of the East & Birds of Prey of the West: Review of Two Field Guides

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There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors.