10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Myers, a professional birding guide in “real life,” summarizes the etymology and history of all common bird names (of bird families and groups, not all 10,000-plus species). This is a topic fraught with the danger of cliche, but Rogers knows how to use the essay form to tell a good story and convey the magic of emotional and worldview change.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Calls include nasal wheezes, squeals, cackling and churring; combinations of rather high nasal “u-err”, quick high nasal “ii” and rolling “pwaaowa” calls uttered by groups of two or more individuals. If I had just this information to go by, I would assume the “Great Parrotbills” to be the name of a Doo-Wop-Band.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 8, 2009

What I do appreciate, and what Mind and Life does, is when meditation is discussed in relation to actual emotional, physical and mental benefits. This has nothing to do with god or transcending spiritually; it's about calming and clearing the mind and the emotions so that you're less crazy.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2011

Beyond helping animals, A Chance for Bliss welcomes the public, both individuals and groups alike, to visit the sanctuary. They often have groups that serve adults with development disabilities and traumatic brain injuries who come and volunteer at the sanctuary. Many of the dogs also have special medication needs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Slang, code, and abbreviations: linguistic shorthand which can make speakers (and writers) incomprehensible to those outside their own group. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Here’s an example.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Ever tech-savvy and always looking for new ways to reach those in need, Henry recently pioneered the development of the world’s first emotional bandage, an Apple iPad app entitled, “Ouch! Emotional bandage,” which conveys some of his lessons. Any animal group in the world can use these materials as fundraising tools.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

We send Animal Therapy teams to hospitals, nursing homes, Hospices and even private homes for Animal assisted Therapy (where we have animals go to individuals or groups) or Animal Assisted Activities (Where we have an animal involved with the actual therapy of an individual that is observed and documented by a Health/Human service professional.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

A group of about 15 Least Sandpipers was feeding in the shallows. Hearts racing and tears of emotion welling up in our eyes! The emotional high of the owl was never going to give this lake a fair chance but even so I would say this spot was the least attractive of the day. What a spectacle. The excitement was far from over.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. It’s powerful writing.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

This particular group fits in with other Bekoff books as well as those by Jonathan Balcombe and Jeffrey Masson (see here for more on some of them from April of 2008). And those mythical differences, of course, have historically been used to legitimize our use and treatment of our nonhuman cousins.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2021

There’s something off-putting about her prose – it’s immensely earnest, precious, and by turns giddy and despairing (“If there is a sadness as big as the galaxy, I feel it now”), so that neither of those latter two emotions is very believable. Cannot talk to your group about hope.”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Large groups of Hooded Merganser , Redhead , Franklin’s Gull , and other floaters were easily spotted. Coming down from the emotional high we noticed our grumbling stomachs: time to eat. Late summer 2023 the lakes and ponds had been empty, presumably because the ducks and geese were moulting.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for. Consumer boycotts and protective laws are desperately needed.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. In the Orinoco, the largest observed groups number 30, but average is just above five. For a breath of air? Photo by Juan Carlos.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

Of course, and as usual, the UK birders are late to the party and just won’t get it. This is what the forests will have in store for you once the split has occurred. Therefore, here is a little advice for you: Go out now and enjoy your forests while you can.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

It's one that's brought on, no doubt, by the acts of vandalism and intimidation of radical animal-rights groups, but I think it also serves to insulate the research community from any responsibility it might otherwise have to increase transparency and public engagement with the work.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

They then lay out the possible implications of the behavior, offering multiple explanations and then laying out the current research, as well as additional field observations, to explore what this behavior means in the big picture, both for corvids as a group and for our understanding of the common roots of evolved behavior in general.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Actually, I was bested by an entire group of teenagers, all gathered – along with 36 adults – on Hog Island , Audubon’s famous camp off the coast of Maine. Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The proprietor of our ecolodge guides my small group of birders up a steep slope where we see, just at the point where a scope view deteriorates into pixels, a huge bird—a Chaco Eagle, also known as a Crowned Eagle—on a huge nest. September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

It’s a small group of 10 to 12 researchers and crew members, and Fox is the sole person responsible for the bird surveys. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. ” There are amazing stories here.

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Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) is against all forms of cruelty to animals and is a grassroots group working to establish rights for all animals here in Ireland, whilst helping to promote and support European and international campaigns. ARAN works with volunteers, activists, members of the public and other animal protection groups.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. And yes, Renato is the only one allowed to throw a couple of completely unknown and bizarre, unrealistically colourful bird groups into the mix.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. This image (by Marius Coetzee) shows Adam Riley & David Hoddinott with a group in Nsuta Forest, a forest reserve that is in the process of being clear-felled and settled by subsistence farmers.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

The Bottom Line: Elsewhere in this blog (see here , here , and here ), I have written about ethical synergy, the regularly observed phenomenon that simultaneously showing respect for persons (including oneself), animals, and the environment typically benefits all three groups (including oneself).

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Very importantly, the breast-feeding years create emotional security in the child through the many hours of intimate contact with the mother. (Dr. Neal Barnard, Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life , p. Breast milk not only contains nutrients, but also antibodies that bolster the baby's immune system.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! Here at Farm Sanctuary, we live with turkeys, so we know they are interesting and intelligent and have complex emotional lives like dogs, cats and other animals. More than 46 million for Thanksgiving alone.

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