10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Like humans preferring snack food and alcohol at night, these spoonbills also have diet preferences depending on the time of the day: “The diet of Spoonbills appeared to differ between night and day because their prey exhibited pronounced nocturnal activity” ( source ). Can anyone help me, please” Poor Deb.

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Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Not quite as straightforward as the class moths and soot scenario, this instead appears to be a response to the high load of heavy metals that a bird can accumulate when living off junk food in the streets or weed seeds grown in vacant lots. And, frankly, many of these efforts will help humans too.

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DC Birds Falcons Humane 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites.

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Investigation 2013 Research Humane 193

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

I know that you have ever-so-organized birding clubs, with their beginning birdwatching classes, monthly field trips, and (just imagine!) And here we are, in 2020, being told to shun human contact as much as possible. But if you can, do go out and look for a new, no-human patch. pelagic tours. Club meetings have been cancelled.

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Birds Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 131

Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Claim 1: A gorilla can definitely kill any animal below 400 lbs easily and still put up a good fight for those above that weight class The truth: Forest leopards in Africa are known to kill gorillas, and while rare, the current record is skewed heavily in favor of the leopard coming out the better in these encounters.

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Gorillas Leopards Killing Apes 52

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

But this Florida population is unique, not just by virtue of their plumage – they have striped crowns while their western brethren have spots – but by virtue of their ability to coexist with humans.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thomas Wolfe wrote an interesting story back in 1940, called “You can never go home again” While I am no writer, and have not penned any stories about my home town, there certainly was some trepidation in my return last week for my 40th High School Class reunion.

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Oregon Birds Montana California 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2013

I pass over the bridge on my way to class and a Song Sparrow is starting to defend a clump of bushes along the river. The most unexpected thing I have heard this week, though, came from the mouth of a human. This week, the future is being heard and not seen. “But then,” she said, “I watched The Big Year.”

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Canada Sparrows Humane Breeding 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 222

Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

Basically, it would mandate that humane societies and horse rescue operations would have to accept a horse if one was presented to them, or they would face a class four misdemeanor," said Larson. He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. I'm giving them an alternative.

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Nebraska Horses Legislation Animal Welfare Act 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

Not only is Kenn Kaufman a world-class birder and all-around naturalist who makes his living doing what he loves. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. How blessed can one guy be? Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 199

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Funny thing is that the professor of the next class disagreed with some of that, and there's a class devoted to the history and function of our laws. And as if there are humans who don't judge. Not judging something because it has already been deemed legal brings up another point that has always irked me: that judging is bad.

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Laws Morals Ethics illegal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. Much like every beautiful sandy beach, the human encroachment is substantial.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2010

Check with your local veterinarian, humane society or American Red Cross for classes. Also know how to contact theASPCA National Poison Control Center ((888) 426-4435) or the Pet Poison Helpline. Learn canine or feline CPR. We all know this is a good idea, but now’s the time to follow through. Learn rescue breathing.

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Pets Medical 2010 Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It turns out that the crake had been feeding all morning along the westward part of Ocean Parkway, and birders discovered that the best place to observe it, being skittish to human presence, was from the wide, poison ivy infested median separating the eastward and westward lanes. Do people keep Corn Crakes?…maybe I should go.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 159

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 3, 2013

For example, in my course I learned how to start exercising with our dog, the benefits to both dog and human, and signs to watch out for concerning over exertion. The nice part about doing these classes online is that you can get started anytime you want to, and you can come back to them anytime you want to as well.

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Dogs Cats Pets Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom. required to determine those catch limits.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 241

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All Wranglers went to the other side of the lodge listening… a potoo mixed with human voices. Take Adam Riley for example: an outstanding world-class birder, yet only 1% of his birds were lifers, which clearly proves my point (I will not tell you that he has already observed 85% or so of the bird fauna on Earth).

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Costa Rica Woodpeckers Farming Owls 161

Animal Person

MAY 2, 2009

I wish Dougie a beautiful life – one which he deserved from birth and one which I hope all greyhounds will enjoy in the very near future.

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Greyhounds RSPCA Speciesism Euthanasia 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. If this be so, then to say that the wrongness of cruelty to animals depends solely upon the human aspects of it, is to assume that the pain of animals is not bad.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Cruelty 40

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2012

Archaeology has demonstrated that humans were crafting collars for their animals at least 7000 years ago and the possibility that this is a conservative estimate is large. Middle class adoption of dog ownership required affordable collars, just like today’s mass marketed collar industry. By Augie Berings, Bering’s Hardware.

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Dogs Stud Houston Pets 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size.

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Penguins Seals Peru Science 193

Animal Ethics

MAY 8, 2008

Keith, Here is an online ethics and animals class I developed for the Humane Society of the United States. Perhaps its content would be useful for your readers. Thanks Nathan Nobis , Ph.D.

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Humane Society Of The United States The Humane Society United States Ethics 40

Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Ian says, regarding " Veterinarians Train Sealers to Kill Humanely, " that "veterinarians very often do not care about animals but rather are more like auto mechanics who are providing a service for humans (that service may be to save an animal or kill an animal, etc)." which includes a poll. and to rodney@thebarretogroup.com and.

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Elephants Vegan Bullhook Laws 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 108

Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

Let the left circle represent the class of moral agents and the right circle the class of moral patients. Normally functioning adult human beings are in category 2. Nelson says that we have duties to both animals and humans. The defining characteristic of moral patiency is the possession of interests. Category 1 is empty.

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Rights Morals Apes Ethics 40

Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2010

Vetsulin was the perfect new product, except for the fact that it's animal (pig) based, unlike human insulins, and then there was the problem with quality control that was first reported last year. Dogs have died from hypoglycemia due to Vetsulin and there is a class action lawsuit.

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Project Treadstone Greyhounds Feral Cats Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I should know, as a librarian I was taught to worship classification systems like LCC, the Library of Congress Classification system which divides knowledge into 21 basic classes, and subject heading authority lists. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time!

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 216

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2008

But this question of Butchery is not merely one of kindness or unkindness to animals, for by the very facts of the case it is a human question of no slight importance, affecting as it does the social and moral welfare of those more immediately concerned in it.

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Butcher Vegetarian Morals Welfare 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Different from many humans, they tend to be quite polite – in a study , male wrens avoided overlapping their own song over the playback of another male by timing the start of their song accordingly. World War 1?

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Eggs China Birds Mammals 169

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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Birds New Jersey Guatemala France 244

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Philosophers make distinctions in order to focus attention on particular classes of things. What seems to be absent in some recent vegetarian arguments, however, is any consideration of animals.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In “Birding in Traffic,” Jonathan Rosen, no stranger to making connections between birds and human elements as he did in “The Life of the Skies,” describes how he took the subway to Union Square Park to see a rare (for NYC) Scott’s Oriole. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 189

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

More than 50 years ago, the Hawaiian Goose (Nene) was one of the first birds listed under the Endangered Species Act, part of the inaugural “ Class of 1967 ”. Habitat has been improved and conserved in some areas, though Hawaii’s increasing human population has made that a challenge.

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Endangered Species Species Hawaii 2018 102