10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

They are, of course, a smaller more compact goose, but picking out the various distinguishing features (such as the yellow eye ring) at such range is invariably challenging, to say the least. One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Often the best clue is counting the flock.

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10,000 Birds

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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California Condor Falcons California Birds 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They didn’t, of course, have the luxury of the fantastic modern optics we take for granted today. Another Captain, John Speke (Speke’s Weaver), was killed by his own shotgun when climbing a stile while out shooting in England, a sad end for the man who was the first European to see Lake Victoria (which he named after Queen Victoria).

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Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Of course, the deluded folks just spin and lie and make stuff up. Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Motomco also makes “Jaguar” and “Tomcat,” complete with cat icons, of course.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 266

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. Here is my opinion. This is mass production.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. because of collisions with vehicles.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Of course, a land of beefeaters needs butchers. Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

A Barred Cuckoo-Dove showed somewhat atypical behavior or had not read its eBird entry about it being “seldom seen out in the open … quick to flee when approached” Of course, Hongbenghe, Yunnan is quite far away from Chicago. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. After all, what good is getting a kill if in doing the killing the predator is injured? From a symbol (to me) of resilience to a falcon’s plaything in a few hours. Predators go for the young or the old, the weak or the sick.

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Culling Falcons New Jersey Killing 157

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Of course there was a settling-in period. And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. They were afraid of people and not used to being inside.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Other days, there is a Ringed Kingfisher making grackle sounds as it courses over a stream. I was just minding my own business, not expecting a thing but the kill still happened. It tells me that its main food source, snakes, must persist in the coffee fields and in the green of precious streamside vegetation.

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Costa Rica Falcons Farming Baltimore 198

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Of course, that’s not the only Yuletide ritual with uncomfortable implications for the Class Aves. And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. And, of course, it has nothing to do with the fact that the Stephen’s Island Wren , an endemic species from the coast of New Zealand, is now extinct. Or does it?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. Raptors either.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2016

And, of course, it is a great spot to see scoters and other seaducks, especially from the jetty, the tip of which is far as you can go in Queens without getting into the ocean. These bloodthirsty Sanderlings were very happy about their kill and they defended the crab carcass with gusto. (No, This shot is also uncropped.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It bans fox hunting, hare coursing, and stag hunting. You can still flush a fox out with dogs, but you can't kill it. Tags: UK fox hunting hare coursing stag hunting. It's been five years since the hunting ban was passed in Britain. If the Tories take over, it could be in real jeopardy. They are totally against the ban.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

These feathered thugs sulk around scamming bread from naive children and despoiling innocent golf courses. Swans are the ones we usually look out for, especially since they can and will kill a man when the murderous mood strikes them. We all know how worked up waterfowl can get in suburban settings.

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Geese Canada Killing Birds 107

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Suffolk Otter swimming in the Little Ouse river Not all Otter s want to be photographed But this one emerged, though only briefly The otter is, of course, a member of the weasel family. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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Fur Bulgaria Otters Estonia 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. Note to other species: better do not rely on mature primary forests, as this may lead to extinction.

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10,000 Birds

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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Boston Killing Protection Collecting 113

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Me, as a management consultant, I sometimes have to pretend to like challenges but of course, I would rather have some easy tasks. Maybe these people like challenges – at least here at the monastery, getting good shots of this species is quite easy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

Of course they also help regulate their body temperature using their famous spread-winged postures. Because of their extra olfactory powers, many other carrion eating birds like hawks eagles and other vultures follow Turkey Vultures to kills. This juvenile bird can be identified by its gray head and black-tipped beak.

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Turkey North America Killing Eagles 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

The vultures didn’t kill it, but they’ll clean up the mess. Of course, being around predators means you need to make a quick exit sometimes (note the Painted Wolf). And afterwards, a drink (of course, I’ve spun this into a narrative, but these images are actually from different days and different parks!).

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 175

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

From July 6-8, there was a European conference in Larnaca about illegal bird killing , organized by Terra Cypria. But the most talked about issue throughout was the ambelopoulia problem in Cyprus, with relevant presentations from the Game Fund, SBA Police, Terra Cypria and of course BirdLife Cyprus.&# That’s welcome news.

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10,000 Birds

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. Thus, FWS is free to continue its program to remove Barred Owls from Spotted Owl habitat.

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Owls Endangered Species Oregon Friends Of Animals 124

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2019

Just when a manakin feels safe it has to deal with the possibility of being killed by a pint-sized, voracious thing with needle-sharp talons. This list of cool birds is of course far from complete. Of course, the best way to decide which bird might be cooler than another is by seeing them with your own binos.

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 18, 2023

The ex boyfriend I mentioned is the one who did all the dirty work and wanted to kill the poor things, purely for fun. The other night I saw there was still one frog left in the pool and of course I decided to quickly capture it. They came back again and again.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. The big human and bird concern for H5N2 is, of course, that the virus will “mutate” into a novel highly virulent killer pandemic flu. Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds?

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Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 177

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

Over the course of several trips I watched the eyasses turn from mostly fluffy chicks to fully feather, and this past weekend I went out assuming to find an empty nest. It, of course, knew I was there. A Peregrine Falcon sits warily on its kill, a young Thayer’s Gull Finally it had enough and sprung into the air.

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Releases are magical, of course, and they’re what make our insane way of life worth it, so you want to share the feeling … but not with too big a crowd. Of all the billions of things that keep wildlife rehabilitators from sleeping at night, public releases are one of the big ones. Lisa had done her homework.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. And being anti-hunting does not weaken our position when it comes to contest killing.”. It will never happen.

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Killing Hunting Hunters Possums 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

When they called our state agency, they were told to “let nature take its course.” Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. People passed the eagle often.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Of course, what they are talking about and how they are changing their behavior is very frustrating for someone who doesn't believe we should be using animals at all. When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began.

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