10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2019

Still, a bird that has its moments – and I am always surprised how this sparrow really seems to enjoy human presence, however destructive it may be. Even in the comparable wilderness of coastal Shanghai, it is far more likely to see the tree sparrow near an abandoned hut than in a more pristine spot.

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Latvia Birds Sparrows Abandon 128

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? Most troubling for me, because I think of them as my birds, is the abandoned nesting attempt by a pair of Pacific Loons.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature. Erik overheard a few waiters joke about the birders “…they keep going left, then right, left, then right.”

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

A month ago I visited this site, right at the edge of Belgrade for the first time, only to discover that I cannot get into the overgrown area in my low-clearance city car. Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 157

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do. So: When do you intervene?

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. Another – much rarer – drongo at Nanhui is the Ashy Drongo.

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Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. Our primary concern is the advancement of investigative methodologies that lead to effective cures and treatments for human diseases. Here's a group I've never heard of.

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Groups Advocacy Biomedical Research Animal Research 100

Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. With record numbers of animals being abandoned due to foreclosures and the economy, and let's face it, adopting a dog or cats isn't going to save you any money, do you think it is irresponsible to offer discounts?

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Adoptable Dog Adoption Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. More often, the parents are nearby, just waiting for interfering humans to leave. This time, though, the situation was different.

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Seattle Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Dogs 225

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First amendment rights? Does it solve it?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 221

Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers. ‘‘The

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Los Angeles Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Our trusting GPS took us through the dawn hours right to the lake where I had previously programmed some points that I wanted to visit from E-bird maps. Soon we had to decide to go left or right and the GPS had two points, one to the left, and one to the right, so we turned to the right and drove towards a school and then some houses.

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Argentina Rights Owls Abandon 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: ‘Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.’ This one was so bad, that we abandoned the idea of seriously birding and just enjoyed our vacation. Also enthusiastic.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 218

Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. No one needs to eat sentient beings, so it's not as if these "farmers" are providing a valuable service to humanity. It's just not right. It's cruel. There's no "compassion" in the process.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

"The French have already discovered," Bentham wrote, "that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same plight."

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2004 Animal Abandon Abandoning 40

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom. I believe, however, that there is another remedy, and one more in keeping with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. In fact, given the right chromosomes, hybridization is possible between the two species and has been observed ( source ). Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 132

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

Whoever is in charge of names in the area had abandoned an unwise relationship with compound names ((meaning Redwinged Starlings were Red-winged Starlings again) and seemed to have shifted the names of lots of species around in the hopes of aligning them with the IOC (goodbye louries). How many copies of Sasol does one human need?

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