10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He collected 136 individuals found laying around after the storm, and carefully measured them. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well. because of collisions with vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Aïthurus polytmus , a family of Red-billed Streamerbirds depicted in a print dated between 1820 and 1860 from the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam. Superstitions about the Red-tailed Streamerbird’s supernatural powers continue today and it’s considered bad luck to kill one. I can think of no higher honor.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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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 ). The Wikipedia entry for Pierre Médard Diard ( 1794 – 1863), a French naturalist and explorer, sounds like he was cheated by Sir Raffles. The dangers of being a geologist.

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MAY 4, 2018

Saturday, May 5 is Global Big Day , when eBirders around the world strive to collectively encounter as many species as possible. Unfortunately, family commitments are killing my Big Day or any other kind of birding this weekend. Last year’s Global Big Day accounted for at least 65% of all the bird species on the planet.

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MARCH 1, 2017

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

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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.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Fish and Wildlife Service caps at five the number of Golden Eagles that members of the Hopi tribe can collect from neighboring Navajo lands. The Navajo also use eagle feathers as part of rituals, but don’t believe in killing the birds. Bald Eagle in Brevard County, by Nate Swick.

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MARCH 13, 2018

However, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) broadly prohibits the “take” of any bird, which effectively means that a protected bird cannot be killed, harassed, or otherwise adversely impacted. 21.23 , which governs scientific collecting permits and under which the FWS issued the permit.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Instead, he led a life of leisure: playing billiards and golf (he competed in the 1904 Olympics as a golfer but somehow didn’t finish the course), traveling, and amassing a massive collection of dead birds, over 19,000 all told. I kill them.”*. Apparently in 1902 he was asked to address an Audubon Society meeting.

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MARCH 18, 2020

In fact, if I remember correctly, it was 2013 when I first noticed (from an office window) a huge collection of sticks at the crown of a large immortelle tree. We counted seven of these alluring birds while I killed my camera battery.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2019

But when both birds approached an eagle, it attacked: the hawk was able to evade the eagle, but not so the crow, which was killed instantly. The modest length of each of Rising’s essays is well-suited to the comfortable (and often humorous) tone of the writing in this entertaining and diverting collection. by Gerry Rising.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. I like the first one best, especially since the parade of the dead Wren involved collecting money for its burial – hardly what you’d do for a bitter enemy. And tied them to the top of sticks. And then paraded them through town.

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JUNE 1, 2016

My parents and I visited because we had a morning to kill in the city before we flew out and my mum loves plants and I love birds. The real star is the lake, which has some reedy areas holding Lesser Swamp Warblers and flocks of weavers collecting nesting material and building nests in. A Grosbeak Weaver collecting nesting material.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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MAY 26, 2015

His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection. In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. There were 23 cows killed; some had to be shot up in trees where they were stuck. But this also struck me in other ways. Chaos and insulation.

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APRIL 22, 2010

It looks like the garbage didn't kill it, but still.just plain gross and unacceptable. Scientists with the Cascadia Research Collective said the examination did not immediately determine why the 37-foot near-adult male died, but it was found to be in better nutritional condition than other gray whales that died recently.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.” were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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MARCH 13, 2012

Delegorgue’s main ornithological contribution was collecting Delegorgue’s Pigeon in the now vanished forests of Durban, but besides this he had little significant input. Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection. Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2020

Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. Mine are mostly cutting-collected natives. And while Dogwoods and Eastern Redbuds may be great options in Massachusetts, they won’t grow for me in Morelia, Mexico.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. The large room the collection was held in was a profoundly weird place.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. Although for some, it is buried deeper than others. The one exception would be the thrill that birding brings.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

I imagine part of the allure of studying mushrooms is the tension between identifying the ones that will kill you (or at the very least give you a tummy ache) and the ones that will make your pizza or salad zing. Identification of all mushroom species entails proper collection, detailed in the Introduction.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2019

But they are also highly-prized for their ruthless and powerful efficiency in killing – medieval illustrations depict them downing cranes and a twentieth-century painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes shows a falconer’s Gyrfalcon inflicting a lethal strike on a Gray Heron ( Ardea cinerea ).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

And New Zealand has a fairly aggressive programme of conservation measures in place to protect native wildlife by killing native species, again something I have defended on th is site. He isn’t arguing that the state should impose this, he’s arguing that we should act collectively.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. I usually enjoy collections of articles and essays, they allow me to sample different writers and different ideas. I wish I could say the same about the other pieces of writing here.

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JULY 5, 2018

The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. Whenever I pushed my paddle lower, I had the impression that there is no water and that I paddle on and though the mist, timeless and eternal.

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MAY 8, 2012

Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. They have even been known to kill children who have been incautious enough to approach too closely.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

The spoonbills are a collection of six species from around the world whose facial accouterments have reached their terrifying bizarre zenith. White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Southern Bald Ibis , photo by Adam Riley. White-faced Ibis , Plegadis chihi.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. August 4, 2010 ‘Static kill’ attempt to stop the oil leak is successful, though more mud may still have to be pumped into the well to close it permanently.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) How can you tell the difference, besides the additional word in the title? All rights reserved. Well, it’s a bit more than that.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty. The first Up For Pups initiative, a stage show called Don’t Kill Bill , makes its debut in Boulder, CO on Feb.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Guano Still Collected in Peru Counting Birds: Will Microphones Replace Nets? I can also imagine how much it costs, which kind of kills the dream a bit. • Explore These Related Posts Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru Where Did This Cooper’s Hawk Come From? Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America.Or

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation.

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