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American College of Veterinary Surgeons – October 24-26, 2024

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24-26 in Phoenix. The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) held its annual surgery summit from Oct. The ACVS presented awards and seated some new officials.

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What Birders Dream About?

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I mean, IDing it as a, let’s say, Rosy-faced Phoenix , would have been perfectly correct for a dream. What I find strange is, why wasn’t I more liberal, why stick to reality in a dream? But, clearly, not my dream. Also, the idea that just seeing or hearing isn’t enough, that obsessive urge to write it down, to prove it to myself.

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Cholla Birds

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On this occasion the biggest draw was the Curve-billed Thrasher that was nestbuilding in a cactus beside the path at the Lost Dutchman State Park , just outside Phoenix. Black-throated Sparrows will tee themselves up atop a cactus to draw the unwary close enough to get skewered. Birding Arizona Cactus Wren Sonoran Desert'

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Collective Arts Brewing: Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach

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But if you’re heading south in the coming weeks, Jam Up is certainly a good beer to have on hand if the mercury starts creeping in to the 70s down in Miami or Phoenix. I generally reserve light, sour beers like this for sweltering summer days – something we’re not likely to have where I am for quite some time.

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I and the Bird #149

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Perhaps it will rise like the proverbial phoenix, once again new and exciting as it leverages whatever format we will adopt next to aggregate outstanding content. So the time has come to retire I and the Bird.

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University of Arizona Gets Grant for Animal Lab

Critter News

The University of Arizona College of Medicine won a $15 million federal stimulus grant to build a facility for research animals in downtown Phoenix. It will be located next to the planned health sciences education building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The grant from the National Institutes of Health will cover the building cost.

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Arizona, or Central Mexico?

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You fly to Phoenix, or Tucson, rent a car (or ride a bike cross-country, if you are Noah Strycker), drive to the tiny towns of Patagonia and Sierra Vista, and voila! I got back into birding less than a decade ago, long after moving to Mexico in 1983. So I can hardly speak with authority on birding in the U.S.

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