10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Some years ago, I was doing research of waterbird migrations with a young ornithologist friend of mine. A knowledgeable birder and great company, he was able to forget just about everything.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

I don't support animal research and I have no sympathy for animal researchers. I would never advocate violence against a researcher. I almost quit a book club a year ago because one of the members is a proponent of medical research. She is a data tech for a clinical testing company (for profit by the way.)

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages. Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

"We applaud the dedicated efforts of animal welfare advocates who stepped up to take in these animals, and hope that the exposure of this situation will underscore the need for stricter enforcement to protect animals in research facilities." Tags: animal abuse animal research cats North Carolina dogs PETA.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

10,000 Birds is running a series of articles by and about tour guides, tour companies, eco-lodges, and other birding travel organizations. These researchers preferred this property for their research due to its close proximity to the Arenal Volcano and resplendent natural environment.

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APRIL 4, 2009

The group is called NC3E (National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research). The Centre funds high-quality 3Rs research, organises workshops and symposia to disseminate and advance the 3Rs, and develops 3Rs information resources and guidelines.

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APRIL 7, 2009

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2023

It seems there is not much research done specifically on Blue-naped Parrots – the only paper I could find featuring the species was from 1981 and had the somewhat unappealing title “A Preliminary Study Comparing the Pharmacokinetics of Ampicillin Given Orally and Intramuscularly to Psittacines: Amazon Parrots (Amazond spp.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

Since it is rare to find an animal control company that actually implements it, AHNow only lists about 30 operators. The old method of trapping and relocating “nuisance” animals, now known to be inhumane, has been replaced by the eviction and exclusion method.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Or how gracefully it flew? Who its predators were?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

So, trying to get a decent shot of it is mostly an exercise in frustration, something any research chemist is already very familiar with. Note: This trip was made with Alpinebirding , a Chinese tour company with very knowledgeable, English-speaking, and friendly guides – highly recommended to overseas birders.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Data from the wind-power companies notes the deaths at least 85 Golden Eagles and Bald Eagles since 1997, with at least 67 of those deaths occurring with in the past five years. It’s worth noting that these numbers are self-reported, so researchers assume that actual death totals are higher.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Endangered. Extinction.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

Note - this company has a lot of industry news sites on a wide range of topics, so they do more then just drug company news. I stumbled across this site called FiercePharma that has all kinds of news about the drug industry. If you go to the very top, there are tabs for FierceBiotechResearch and other topics.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

They have drug companies that are just as powerful as those here. At a conference in Brussels, Belgium on 6 November, European Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, and Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik restated the EU's commitment to the reduction of animal testing. Is public outcry greater? What gives?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Oftentimes, scientists seem to think that they just need to waive their PhDs and research projects in everyone's faces and we should all shut up and bow our heads to their great wisdom. Until then, taxpayer-financed discoveries were in the public domain, available to any company that wanted to use them.

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APRIL 6, 2009

While the vast majority of this company's products were shrimp, the majority of its revenue was earned from crab sales. frozen seafoods with sauces, etc.) Factory farming does not only happen on land. It happens on the sea too. And it is just as wasteful.

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MARCH 31, 2010

It raises the question of how useful animal research really is if we only see the studies that show relevant results. Tags: animal research drug companies animal studies. Here's an article in Nature about how many animal studies with negative or inconclusive results go unpublished. Or negative for whatever other reasons?

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Critter News

APRIL 27, 2010

Charles River Labs, a company which develops drugs and conducts contract animal testing, has an atrocious animal rights record, although they deny it of course. Now, they are continuing their plans to grow into a significant drug research company by acquiring WuXi AppTec Co, a Chinese pharmaceutical contractor.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2013

It was on the island of Trinidad, at the Aripo Agricultural Research Station, where all of these photographs were taken. In Trinidad and Tobago, the Aripo Agricultural Research Station is easily the best place to see Red-breasted Blackbirds (to say nothing of South American Snipe , Fork-tailed Flycatchers , and a host of other cool birds).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

I’ve been banding birds of prey for 5 years it is easy to put ourselves through endless fog days and cramped quarters when the end result is good research, accurate data, and minimal impact on the raptors we encounter. Their fierce tendency to bite means the bander is often as relieved as the bird is when they finally part company.

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JUNE 7, 2010

Do they work for a drug company that tests on animals? Is their job therefore dependent on that company's success? Or do they work for a university which is dependent on grant dollars for research involving animals? Tags: animal experimentation animal research. to be continued).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This, as any scientist will tell you, surely requires further research. Note: This trip was made with Alpinebirding , a Chinese tour company with very knowledgeable, English-speaking, and friendly guides – highly recommended to overseas birders despite the occasional aggressive pointing out of rather unimpressive leaf warblers.

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Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Tags: animal experimentation UK drug companies medical research biotech. experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. with officials of the National Institutes of Health, which contracts with a private company to care for the chimps. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal laboratories Texas new mexico. From the AP.

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JULY 5, 2010

One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. Tags: animal research dogs Best Friends animal laboratories. a site for dog lovers. and Elmsford, N.Y.,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Think twice, and do some research. They are highly trained homing pigeons, which is why it costs more to hire a company that will deliver this type of bird, and to make sure they are released correctly. Thinking of releasing white doves to commemorate your wedding or the memorial of a loved one? Where do they go after they fly away?

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Critter News

JANUARY 12, 2010

which provides mice and other animals for scientific research, is suspending operations at its facility in Shrewsbury indefinitely and laying off 300 people, the Boston Business Journal reports. Tags: Charles River Laboratories animal research. Charles River Laboratories International Inc.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2012

As the company has been introducing me to the rest of the staff and clients, a description of my talents caught my attention. Another challenge to bird research is that it is woefully underfunded and relies heavily on citizen science. In one document, I was referred to as a “self-taught ornithologist.”

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JULY 21, 2009

The stupid project is in partnership with a French pharmaceutical company. Tags: animal research pharmaceuticals primates medical research malaysia. Fortunately, there are Malaysian activists opposing it. But of course, the argument will be that the project is economic development, jobs and "for the good of humanity.".

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

While some of my early observations found their way to ornithological journal pages, it was probably the first larger research I participated in, the nation-wide (it was Serbia-wide by then, although the name Yugoslavia still stuck) census of heronries that really made me thinking of methodology.

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JUNE 14, 2010

Animal rights campaigners have accused the Progenix Research lab, which uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing, of poisoning the animals to death. Tags: animal research malaysia.

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MARCH 26, 2009

I thought it was an urban myth that animal shelters would actually turn over unwanted animals to laboratories for research, but apparently not. Montcalm County has taken a step towards ending its relationship with an animal research facility. In return, the company can use some of the unwanted dogs for animal research.

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MARCH 1, 2010

In fact, the animal research supporter in my book club said that very same thing. (By By the way, she works for a company that does clinical testing for drug companies. They are used to miles and miles of ocean. The argument that they have "plenty of room" has been made about elephants too. Animals are commodities for her.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2017

However, once you have covered those areas it’s now time to make your resume stand out from all of the other generic ones this company might receive. Approach companies rather than just waiting for vacancies to be advertised. This is when you need to ensure that you have researched the company you are going for an interview with.

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