10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2024
The species is listed as Vulnerable – the estimated number of individuals is 4600-5100 (HBW), of which about 2000 winter on Hokkaido. Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
Less than 2000 grams – more sail, it seems, than bird. Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! For those of us in North America other than the Gulf coast, the only time we might see a Magnificent Frigatebird is after a storm. I’m glad we lived. I wish I had seen the bird.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2021
This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. (We Still, not a bird that merits flying 2000 km from your hometown. We had a scary moment when – on the main road – a truck passed us by so closely that the rearview mirror got completely smashed. A juvenile.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
As regards capricious killing, one hopes so; but what of vivisection, and of the eating of red meat? Is love to diminish inversely as the square of the distance? Is it to extend, in some degree, to the interests of individuals belonging to other species than [our] own? One thinks also of unborn generations.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.
Animal Person
AUGUST 13, 2010
I work with my mom and dad twenty other caring individuals to provide the best, most comfortable place for my family members, all 2000 of them. His family members total 2000. Are the humans providing Brian with something he is profiting from (maybe hard work, he'd say), and when they stop he will kill them?
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