10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

The article to look for is titled “ Ceratospira inglisi Ocular Infestation in a Wompoo Fruit-Dove” After viewing these photos, it is a good idea to relax your eyes by looking at a Brown Songlark. Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the western U.S. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. An excellent Audubon article states “What do birds do when wildfires break out?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

The extensive footnotes (36 pages, small print) are impeccably written and include scientific journal articles, government reports, websites, natural histories, and occasionally addenda to the text. There is also a very detailed, well-constructed index.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do. Possibly also for doing the dishes. .” Two ways of life folded at once.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

As a Northeast birder I am familiar with the alarming decrease in the number of Red Knots along Atlantic shores and have signed petitions and written e-mails calling for legislation and rules that will limit the overharvesting of the horseshoe crab, whose eggs Red Knots depend on. million in the late 1990’s. Should the gulls be controlled?

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

(Indeed, some reports take the term ‘noxious’ quite literally, stating that knapweeds exude natural herbicides to discourage competition and can cause irritation to the skin of humans trying to pull them; one rumor gives them the power to induce ‘hand cancer’ if not handled with gloves.) And yet it persists.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Look at all these incidents that have occurred there (listed in the Montreal Gazette article in the above link).I In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs. Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans. The two most common food allergies or food intolerances in pets are: Protein including chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs and soy. milk in lactose intolerant humans ). Grains like wheat or corn. Upset stomach. Refusal to eat.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2009

I cannot locate the article), and one was a post about abolitionists. But I read two types of articles about 4-H: either about how the kids are proud of what they've done, or about how upset they are that the animal they have come to love is going to his or her death. I want humans to stop using sentient nonhumans for their own gain.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life. Most will never know sunlight, breezes, plants or soil.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. Africans were brought over as slaves.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. A nest wasn’t found until 1903, which set off a craze for Kirtland’s Warbler skins, nests, and eggs.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, April 9): Thank you for this inspiring and enlightening article. If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Kristof’s column.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans. The Bibliography is extensive (14 pages) and scholarly. The Indexes are purely by name.

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 205

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. Similarly, the papers, reports, and journal articles cited in each chapter are listed in the 10-page Annotated Bibliography.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

To the Editor: Nina Planck’s article touches on a particularly important topic. Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In fact, a recent article in the Economist on Singapore’s rewilding states “The oriental pied hornbill (pictured), with its extraordinary ivory casque, had been locally extinct for a century. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 131

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

According to an article in the Guardian , “nearly a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples, the males sometimes mating with a female simply to have a chick. Once the egg has been laid, the female is chased away and the males hatch it.”

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The Zoo episode focuses on two Pink Pigeon couples: The Stud and Serendipity, a male and female that the zoo people hope will mate and produce a viable egg, and Thelma and Louise, a same-sex pair-bonded couple who the zoo people hope will incubate the egg and nurture the chick. Because, Ms. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is in addition to the many articles and exhibits and even film devoted to the bird, one of the few species whose death was witnessed and noted down to the exact day, Tuesday, September 1, 1914 (though there is some question about the exact time). How many eggs did a pigeon lay? It’s an effective introduction.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Box after box of egg. This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. If you feel like spelunking into stupidity and bile, have a read of the comments section of the Daily Mail article. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place. New Zealand Bitterns. Bush Wrens.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In recent years, the prevalence of disease-causing bacteria in meat, poultry, and eggs has risen sharply, which is why health authorities insist that these products be carefully handled and thoroughly cooked, if they are used at all. That animal product is human breast milk. Meatless meals also help your child to keep stronger bones.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2019

Each Species Accounts begins with the basics according to Greeney: Common and scientific names, Plate number, full citation of the article that first described the species, often followed by information about the name origin, type specimens. A “broad brush summary” follows (p.11).

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Research Eggs South America Costa Rica 149

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Generally, the HBW entry on this species is not very informative – mostly the usual boilerplate statements regarding future updates: “ Editor’s Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Some birds existed only on outlying islands and in small populations, so once humans arrived then there would have been a huge risk to their survival. … Extinction is forever.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). Yes, you can get that information! Probably without having a single thought while doing it!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Predictably, the Wikipedia article on the Asian Stubtail is short and thus ends with the usual sentence of such entries: “This Cettiidae-related article is a stub. Similar to the situation among humans, among Grey-capped Greenfinches , “high-quality individuals prefer to mate with each other” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

He has authored Woodpeckers of Europe (2004), Birding in Eastern Europe (2006), a monograph on The Black Woodpecker (2011), and numerous popular and scholarly articles. I also enjoyed the breeding photo series, showing Downy Woodpecker eggs and then hatchlings within a breeding chamber in a tree, with only a few wood chips to support them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Perhaps the most positive reaction came from noted bird photographer Marie Read, who noted that the information about waterfowl reaction to humans and decoys would be of great interest to nature photographers. I was really taken aback when I saw this. Reactions varied from confusion to distaste. Barker and Carrol L.

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