10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Despite the fact that efforts are made to ensure they are not imprinted on humans, they are naturally confiding, even friendly. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience. Shooting remains a major threat to this population, for the Italians are still passionately keen on hunting.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2020

And lots of birds, of course. Yes, I know that birding can be turned into a social experience of sorts, but it will still always involve lots of silence and stealth. After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.).

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Battery Humane Groups Birds 252

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Their guides are well trained, and have very rich experiences in birding and customer care, speak several languages, and understand their destination well. The bird guides have not worked for over a year now, and of course being a young industry, most of the bird guides had invested in other alternative businesses.

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Uganda Rwanda Birds Industry 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. Apparently, this name is derived from the well-ordered patterns of the male.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2022

Bird names say much about human perception, they can also give us insight into the people who invented names for official bird descriptions. In my experience, it seems to sing more during the spring months and this of course is a great help in locating this unobtrusive bird. Pewee is a royal pain.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2022

Of course, there are many different accessibility challenges and a site that is accessible to some may be inaccessible to others. Apart from helping share this much-needed information, it’s a concrete way they can help, and it can be such an amazing learning experience going through the process of a Birdability Site Review.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career. Did the model work?

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Of course, the first step is to define what is a ‘vagrant bird,’ a discussion I really appreciated since I’ve noticed that we (as in birders in general) tend to bandy the term about interchangeably with ‘accidental,’ ‘exotic,’ ‘scarce migrant,’ and ‘MEGA MEGA.’

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2012

The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. Oh wait, it doesn’t. Radio Road, Redwood Shores, CA.

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San Francisco Birds North Dakota Oakland 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I found those comments insightful and inspiring, valuable experiences and opinions worthy of sharing to a wider audience than the FB groups where they were initially posted. Eric DeFonso: “I think a ‘good guide’, in the most generic sense, is one who provides for a gratifying nature experience for his or her clients. A teacher.”.

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Greece Birds Zambia Experience 216

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2012

Of course, this week will largely focus on the adorableness that baby birds bring. But, just like with human babies, you have to admit that sometimes you anticipate fawning over a baby bird and instead nearly end up retching instead. Can you handle the cuteness? Can you stand the anticipation? Can your blood sugar handle the sweetness?

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Birds Eggs Humane Experience 184

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Because of this, areas around the city that were once sleepy are now “urban,” with humans and wildlife struggling to keep up. The first looked very similar to a Mourning Dove , which of course can be found across the United States. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants!

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Austin Texas Birds Non Human 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common. How efficient. How surprising.

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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. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Research 239

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2017

I understand that people have no choice but to work sometimes, and of course, in circumstances like this do a job purely to pay the bills. Of course, you need to cover all the basics of a good resume. Your past employment, your experience, a little about yourself and your achievements and any qualifications that you may have.

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Rights Industry Experience Experiments 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This is particularly poignant if the bird has disappeared during the course of my birding days or “on my watch” as I like to think of it. Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

From their call to action: Wearing blue to represent the sea that surrounds us, we rise to the steps of the NY Stock Exchange at 12:00 pm, flooding the area with our bodies in a massive sit-in – a collective act of nonviolent civil disobedience – to confront the system that both causes and profits from the crisis that is threatening humanity.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. But in the case of Harris Hawks , this mentality jumps the species barrier and they form a strong bond with their human partners, readily accepting their non-avian hunting companions as members of their pack. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Despite, or maybe because of the active human intervention, quite a few species can be seen in a couple hours in the morning. (I I am accustomed to seeing a Coyote or two on each visit I make to the park in the early morning before bikers, dog-walkers, joggers, and humanity in general get out and about. ………

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Coyotes California Mammals Sparrows 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

He’d like to thank his mom, his agent, and of course the Birding Academy. The nest cam, in my mind, is the perfect compromise — minimally invasive to the bird, while offering even the most unadventureous or house-bound humans the opportunity to get to know a small slice of nature. Hooray, in short, for nest cams.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 166

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

It’s very important to get the right balance of protein (humans take note for your diet too)! Of course with too much fat your pet will have weight gain. If the vitamins levels are deficient, your pet could experience fatigue or weakness. Not enough fat? Potential for a dull, dry and flaky coat.

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Kittens Puppies Pets Fur 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Climate Change. So what does climate change mean for birds?

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 226

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? And of course, the reality that all of this involves using sentient nonhumans when that's unnecessary isn't even considered. What about being torn from your family?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

The introduction gives both a simple overview of how birds use their feathers as well as brief idea of how humans have been fascinated by feathers since prehistory. The two strands are well woven together both in the introduction and throughout the rest of the book.

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Reptiles Bats Eggs Humane 191

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 5, 2011

This book explores the special connection and bond between humans and dogs. The author, Jeffery Masson, draws on recent scientific research, and of course his own personal experiences through his bond with his beloved dog Benjy to find out why, we have such close bonds with dogs.

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For Animals Animal Wyoming Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2012

Birding the Dry Tortugas in late April has always been high on my bucket-list of the best birding experiences in North America. Day-trips to the Dry Tortugas are of course possible but the best way to experience the islands is on an extended 3-day guided tour. That means I used to be very young. Almost infantile.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. How did I know that?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. This means, of course, that the very resources responsible for the warblers’ existence, especially funds for cowbird trapping, will no longer be available.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Flying around in an airplane or taking a sprawling roadtrip is absolutely the exact opposite of “green” birding, but as a bird junkie, you gotta get around if you want to experience new places and new things. Your yard of course. Also, don’t underestimate the value ecotourism has for wildlife in many places.

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Birds Portland Oregon 2015 212

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

Once we arrived at Villas Wildlife Management Area, an old, overgrown, golf course and I saw my car parked, waiting for us to give up this crazy biking idea, I was more happy than I have been for a long time. Hoping for Red-headed Woodpecker we found instead a Red-tailed Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

My childhood in the 1970s and 1980s was of course shaped by family, friends, playmobil ( very popular in Germany back then), and school but also to a certain extend by the Cold War. Yes, in the face of all the human tragedy the Cold War caused it may seem a miniscule aspect, but to a young boy who was passionate about birds, it wasn’t.

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Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

And of course, as a (pop) culture whose sensibility has been formed by The Onion and The Daily Show , it's no wonder. Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? We're sentient.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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