10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2018

Unlike the bird, the fruit known as the kiwi isn’t native to New Zealand, but received that appellation in a marketing ploy by Kiwi kiwi growers – or if you prefer, New Zealander Chinese gooseberry farmers – to associate the fleshy, bright green fruit with Down Under agriculture.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in making the already interesting biogeography of this country even more complicated. The solution, as you might imagine from this go getting era, was to bring some better ducks to New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

It is also known for the 500 exotic species of animals and plants that now call the Sunshine State home. Exotic species are animals that did not historically occur in Florida. The New Zealand Grey Duck is nearly extinct as species. Approximately 95 percent of the native Gray Ducks in New Zealand are hybrids.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This makes it a particularly exciting time in New Zealand as the Rugby World Cup begins in two days, and the competition is being held right here in New Zealand (I would imagine they might be more excited if they hadn’t just lost two matches to Australia and South Africa, their big rivals in the Tri-Nations).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This was at least what I was left pondering this week as read about a rogue swan attack here in New Zealand that almost left a whitebaiter dead. New Zealand was once home to Haast’s Eagle , the largest eagle in the world. Apparently a swan in the US recently succeeded in its murderous attempts.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2014

Later the continents broke up into smaller regions such as South America, Africa, Asia and such, an a few smaller pieces like Madagascar and New Zealand as well. Verily, when it comes to news stories about evolution, mammals aren’t the only kind of animal that can be milked! This was on Gondwana.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

If you love the idea of swimming with dolphins, New Zealand is a great place to do it. It may be part of the reason I find them unnerving, it is only the smart creatures that can do actual bad things, instead of just wild animal things. Birding dolphins marine mammals New Zealand endemic' Akaroa Harbour.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

To answer this question, a citizen science project looks for volunteers to record Yellowhammers ( Emberiza citrinella ) in New Zealand and Great Britain to evaluate distribution of their dialects. Yellowhammer is a widespread, small and conspicuous songbird that ideal for studying functions of dialects in animal vocal communication.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

submitted by /u/OfficiallyGamingGuru [link] [comments].

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Southern Brown Kiwi on Stewart Island, New Zealand, that ran down the path in front of me, was never captured. They might very well have their Kiwi, but in my opinion, no bird could possible represent the country of New Zealand as well as the beautifully voiced Tui.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be forgiven for thinking that it might be a wreck after this week. It breeds on the Chatham Islands and some of the islands south of New Zealand, as well as Gough and Tristan da Cunha in the Atlantic.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 20, 2021

submitted by /u/bruce_brockman [link] [comments].

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Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Two authors in New Zealand claim that the carbon footprint of pet animals are the same as owning a car. New Zealand-based authors Robert and Brenda Vale base their findings on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets ranging from budgerigars to cats and dogs.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Research on animals is research on animals. Mike Rounds wants a biotech animal research facility built in South Dakota. The summit on genetically engineered animal technologies drew about 200 people from as far as South Korea and New Zealand. From the High Plains Journal.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I apologize for the audio quality of this episode.my sound engineer was on the Xbox! Here are the week's stories.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2014

As New Zealand’s beat writer I think I’ve done an okay job of discussing the birding of an entirely different island for most of the year, so it’s only fair that I keep that winning streak going by talking about my target for the trip. My animal bucket list hasn’t changed much either, for similar reasons.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 16, 2008

According to this post , a police spy in New Zealand who infiltrated animal rights groups as well as other activist organizations.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2021

The Kea – New Zealand’s enigmatic alpine parrot. It is also strange, perhaps, that the subject of this short excellent video series, is not from Australia but from the true ‘land of birds’ across the ditch from Australia – New Zealand or Aotearoa. The Tui – a New Zealand endemic.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. Earlier this year a cyclone blew through New Zealand and uprooted a lot of native trees on government land on South Island. she’s Texan. Shot a rhino?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” Studying a wild animal is a multi-disciplinary exercise.

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Critter News

MAY 2, 2011

From Radio New Zealand. Nothing stops the Japanese whalers! The ABC reports five crews from the town of Ayukawa have joined the hunt, even though the tsunami destroyed Ayukawa Whaing's storage facility and carried its fleet of three whaling vessels hundreds of metres inland, where they remain.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. – Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand – The Cattle Egret Expansion – Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere) – It’s a Myth – Isn’t It?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom. But that’s another story.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Enough History – Back to the Future. The snow was falling, the wind was blowing… what else to do?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Rather than accepting the CO 2 emissions resulting from building a new nest scrape, it reuses those of other birds (“ Inter-specific nest scrape reuse in waders: Little Ringed Plovers taking over the nest scrapes of Northern Lapwings” ). In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” For example, I was going to add “no tail” to the list of features above, what all frogs share, when I remembered that there are indeed a small family of Tailed frogs, four species in New Zealand and two in North America (though, the tails are quite tiny).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I guess New Zealanders really like flightless birds.) I say almost because that particular distinction actually falls to another New Zealand bird, the Black Robin, of which there were once just four (including just one breeding female). At any rate Kakapo matter. Sirocco than Kakapo being handfed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does. Only time will tell.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

The Sperm Whale is the fourth largest whale, and the largest toothed whale (and animal) in the world. The boat moves quickly past interesting things; Northern Giant Petrels , Buller’s Shearwaters , White-capped Albatrosses , New Zealand Fur Seals (I understand they will pause to see dolphins).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2013

When I first visited New Zealand, back in 2000, the Stichbird was just a rare species of honeyeater (Meliphagidae), one of three representatives of that Australian family to be found here. It certainly resembles one, and has plumage that brings to mind the New Holland Honeyeater , a common bird if you’ve ever been to Sydney.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns. In cows, the hormones have been shown to increase lameness, udder infections and bone cancer.

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