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Veterinarian salaries struggle to keep up with inflation

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Unlike new veterinarians, overall veterinary incomes haven’t quite caught up to prerecession levels, said Charlotte McKay, AVMA associate director for statistical and geospatial analysis and senior economist.

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CVTEA announces policy changes, decisions

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The AVMA Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities (CVTEA) had a busy year as it oversaw the accreditation of more than 200 veterinary technology programs, updated its standards, and published survey results giving the latest statistics on these programs.

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Birds of the Masai Mara

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Statistics elude me at this point, but I believe it is a safe statement to make that the majority of visitors to the very famous Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya are not necessarily interested in birds.

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Where America dreams of/goes birding?

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Several times, the answer was “Africa”, which, being a continent and not a country, I excluded from the statistics, but will further comment below. Also, destinations mentioned only once (by a single respondent) were excluded from the statistics, because I saw them more like a statistical error than a popular destination.

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Birders are Freeloaders

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Many of our most puzzling statistics arise from this otherwise innocuous report. In fact, this is the source for the statistic — that approximately 71 million Americans are “bird watchers” — that has been a veritable iceberg to the Titanic of any birding-industry company that took the number at face value.

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What is the State Bird of Connecticut?

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Given these grim statistics, it’s even more impressive that the oldest recorded living robin was over 14 ! However, less than half of the robin pairs that nest successfully fledge young, and only one in four of those that do fledge will be alive come November. Think those that survive until winter are the lucky ones?

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An Open Letter to Outdoor/Feral Cat Supporters

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Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? Can you talk about how much you love your cat, and ignore the shredded bodies of the birds it mutilates? If that’s the case, then let me show you what happens to outdoor cats.