10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The explanation for these differing attitudes toward life (and much, much else) has to do with the aforementioned biotic interchange — what one paleontologist, as quoted by Meiburg, called “one of the most extraordinary events in the whole history of life.”. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

What if there was an event that truly captured the rigors and fast-paced nature of the sport? What if this event took place in one of the most biodiverse natural areas in the world? Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The starving young male had been rescued from the side of a road, recovered at my house, then went to my rehabber friend Lisa’s for live prey training, where he sharpened his skills until he was a mouse-killing machine. Ty needed one, too. Was there any way … ? Lisa had done her homework.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The seven-night television event features visually stunning and powerfully resonant stories of nature’s fiercest felines! A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill. Big Cat Week starts tonight on Nat Geo WILD!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Now, I presume that not all the readers of this blog post will be familiar with the reasons behind the Germans’ leaving Germany for a life in the northern Sahel zone, so I’ll quickly summarize the main events: The winter of 2012/2013 has been the darkest winter ever, since daily sunlight hours were recorded.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 19, 2014

Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. You don’t feed, encourage and celebrate a large, lovely, charismatic species for 17 years, attracting thousands of devotees who travel each year just to admire it, and then turn around and kill it in front of them. The state’s response?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

The only type of “white doves” capable of surviving an event release are white racing pigeons, technically known as “ Rock Doves ” (Columba livia). I doubt anyone would want to begin their wedded life or celebrate the memory of a loved one by killing one or more gentle, lovely birds, however unintentionally.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. But the fact is nature has little to do with most problems facing native birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 31, 2010

Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. Every year they host a great event to help raise the funds that they need to continue their rescue efforts. Jenna Fischer hosts the event, which is being held this year on September 11th, 2010. You can read the full details below.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I am sure one could make a very boring movie based on the events described in this paper. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted. The dangers of being a geologist.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

Hopefully at that point, a mixed flock will pass through the forest, kill a few cicadas, and give you a dozen lifers in one fell swoop. Those and other bird-a-thrill, uncommon events are also why we trade the easy bird activity at the edge for hours inside the forest. ” sayeth the Bicolored Antbird.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

The Chicken Inferno is always one of the highlights of my year, but bird watching rarely takes center stage at the event. Over the years, I’ve chronicled an apparent decline in the numbers of the birds hanging around the kill-zone. This year, though, the birding was better than usual.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

A Southern Cassowary ( Casuarius casuarius ) that may have tried to kill me. But in the event that you bored of such marvels, there were other birds as well A large Helmeted Friarbird ( Philemon buceroides ), the second largest honeyeater in mainland Australia. And cassowaries came up below the deck as well.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

A two-hour live event airing on Nat Geo Wild tonight, Friday, November 25th at 9 PM ET. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? In fact, on average four times more people are killed by cows in the U.S. each year than are killed by sharks all around the globe. Time of day. Panic and fear.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

9: Swift What would happen if instead of sending the Joker and Lex Luthor off to jail each time Superman and Batman caught them, instead they just killed them? Jean is currently dead, but given the current Avengers versus X-Men event Marvel is running at the moment is starring the Phoenix Force, that may not last till the end of the year.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

But the most grueling event of all, perhaps in all the birding world, is the Five Day race. However, doing the deed at the requisite unrelenting pace might kill you! Sure, in that time you can see over 300 birds across a dazzling diversity of habitats stretching from the Big Thicket down to the Rio Grande Valley.

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Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

Major extinction events that are geologically instantaneous have been followed by periods of time with reduction of species or unstable habitats that last for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. But we also know that rapid change can have long term devastating effects. This is not what the study shows.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves. It’s a natural event, part of the natural “Circle of Life” as Disney might have it. And Pippa, our biologist, was very concerned. Her concern was well founded. Those collars save lives.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves. One good thing about the way David Quammen writes is that there isn’t any prim moralising from him, the events he describes happen, and you can draw your own conclusions. A sobering thought, but it would be dangerous to read too much into that.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

Hand isn't convinced, but does steer us to happy meat in the event of health problems caused by our veganism. And with regard to killing in order to survive, there's a difference between "killing" a carrot and killing a cow, whom you know is just as sentient as your dog or your child.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

During my favorite birding event of the year, the annual Big Sit at Fort Tilden in Queens in October , we had hit a lull and were desperately trying to scrape up a few more species when Matthieu spotted a pelican and all was right with the Big Sit once again. I loved how they would pop up in the most unexpected places.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright. Her father Charles the Bold had been killed only five years earlier at the Battle of Nancy in 1477. The falcon hunt took place in the quiet, picturesque Flemish countryside south of Bruges, on the property of Adolph of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

. “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” Phillip Johnson, executive director of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, told the Salem Statesman Journal ([link] “It’s an interesting and somewhat mysterious event.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Some birders told me they had no birding community in their home areas, which, for me, encapsulated the best reason behind the Safari (and other ABA big events)–the development of a national birding community. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax. Rahrig was forbidden to own an animal for five years, but he was subsequently seen at an adoption event in California.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

In any event, this round of H5N2 outbreaks is expected to slow down and stop soon, as the migrations wind down. Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds? It is not clear to me if the numerous cases of infection are all explained by wild to domestic bird transmission, or if some of the farms were cross-contaminated. Or, even, many of them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Michael Vick, whose unearthed gambling operation was found to not only force dogs to fight, but also kill under-performing dogs in twisted ways, is only one story in a mass of untold stories. It is an identifying chip that many dogs have implanted into their shoulders to identify their owners in the event of being lost.

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

Though I don't disagree, I guess my thinking was to at least take some business from the places that use living animals for profit because trying to affect the ones that have already killed the animals is not as urgent at that point, not to mention there's no way that would work. What would you do? I'm thinking leave town is the best answer.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feral cat ordinance.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Over the next 20 or 30 years there will likely be some dramatic events along these lines. Keep watching.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes. Photo by Mikebaird. But really, it is vultures that are the nail in the coffin when it comes to a scavenging phase; not as a form of proof, but as a wake up call to get real about scavenging.

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