10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth. How long that circumstance would obtain if Serbia were (for example) in the European Union, with its agricultural monocultures, is questionable, she says.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 31, 2023

For example, if you killed a bears cub, and then later stomped on it, would the mother bear care? I was watching the movie Hush, particularly the scene in which the killer is taunting maddie with her dead friends earrings being taken off of her, and I was wondering if animal empathy could extend to the dead?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. But more often, one would think, it’s the other way around: humans have led to “paradigm shifts” in avian history, and not in a good way.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Another example of how animals (even goldfish!) A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. I'm posting the whole article because it's so short. become victims of domestic violence. Who knows what the next step could be?

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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. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Claim 1: A gorilla can definitely kill any animal below 400 lbs easily and still put up a good fight for those above that weight class The truth: Forest leopards in Africa are known to kill gorillas, and while rare, the current record is skewed heavily in favor of the leopard coming out the better in these encounters.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

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

MAY 2, 2021

She can land on a transformer once then, the next time, be killed when she brushes up against the jumper wire. This is a perfect example of the old adage, “If you want to change the world, start in your own backyard.”. She can land on another wire with impunity, but not if she’s holding a wet fish. It’s not.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

For example, how many lies can you find in the quote below from this article ? Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number 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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Reddit Animals

JULY 9, 2023

For example bearded dragons and lepord geckos are strictly solitary animals with lepord geckos an exception is 2 females with 40 gallons of space EACH wich I know damn well isn't happening. They also give out the most ass "care info" with some of the info literally ment to kill/ make your animal sick.

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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. It's a thoughtful question I wish more people would ask.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2017

(The smart-looking example in the photo above is by Michael Catanzariti, through Wikimedia Commons.). The law of unintended consequences has tragic effects at a zoo in England, as rat poison ends up killing the Rainbow Lorikeets it was intended to protect. So crazy it just might work?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Interesting to learn, for example, that in 1885 more than five million birds were killed in the United States for the millinery industry, and that in 1904 market hunters in Oregon killed over 120 tons of waterfowl for the restaurant trade in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

So common that my local bird guide actually gave the species as an example of a very common bird he was still happy to see during the COVID lockdown when it showed up in his backyard. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Lucky him, right?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Example one? Residents point to what the cats are leaving behind as a big component of their frustration – as it draws flies, causes foul odor, kills plants and grass and frequently gets trampled on. Example two is from Canada, Ontario to be exact. ” And she’s not alone.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

But when both birds approached an eagle, it attacked: the hawk was able to evade the eagle, but not so the crow, which was killed instantly. A crow was repeatedly bothering a hawk from above and behind, pecking at the tail feathers. and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2021

This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. (We This blue is not a pigment but rather a “structural color”, something I am too lazy to write about now but which has been explained nicely before, for example here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2021

In many cases these are obvious–Jelly Fungi have a gelatinous texture–and in other cases it’s really not–Boletes, for example, look superficially like Agarics with their cap and stalk structure, but don’t have gills, the lower surface is covered with pores that are the ends of tubes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Predators and storms can wreak havoc and human intervention is sometimes needed for survival. So: When do you intervene? Baby bird with lots of mites.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

Examples like Franklin Park's just create cynics among us. Isn't the fact that they'd mention euthanizing a mockery of the vaunted principles upon which zoos are always promoting themselves? That they care for the species and animals? Who would they euthanize? It doesn't say.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Need an example of “hypocrisy?” The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. Ted not only did not call on anyone to poison cats but he pointed out that Tylenol is not registered for use in killing cats. Pretty standard. ” Wait, what? Is that what Ted said?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. He notes that “Beginning in the 1960s, for example, conservation was dominated by non-hunters whose legacy includes key legislation such as the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). It is being hunted solely for food, and those who kill them certainly want their meat exported by any criminal channel available. Money and effort are being invested in that protection.

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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? Indeed Jean Grey has become something of an example of how no one stays dead in comics, ever. Her powers manifest as wings and, as her name suggests, a pretty loud scream.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example wasting their time in wild places looking for unusual feathered animals and ticking them off a list, but things that fall outside of their usual repertoire of normal behaviour. It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. And the hole looks fairly fresh.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2014

See, for example, t his post from 2008 when a bird in Central Park delighted birders or this post, from earlier this week , which casually mentions one that I found wandering in the grass at Madison Square Park. May your non-skulking ways not get you killed! It was pretty awesome that so many people got this bird as their lifer.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2012

For example, cocoa bean mulch contains theobromine, which is toxic for dogs. For example, if your dog has an appetite for odd objects (and many dogs do), keep items like garden hoses safely stored away when you aren’t monitoring your dog’s activity. Follow the application instructions for these products. Room to Move.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Another example of cacheing but this time it was intentional. Having been gone for 5 or 6 months, she returned with a new style much less dependent on killing the prey on the ground. A few weeks later I watched Patch return to a favorite dining tree and pull half of a pigeon out from under a branch.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

I took in a Warrior Queen Red-tailed Hawk hit by car (WQ RTHA HBC) who awed me with her strength and ferocity, but irritated me with her habit of trying to kill me every time I opened her crate. Here’s an example. I once went through a short illustration phase. ” BAR is a standard rehabber term for bright, alert, and responsive.

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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. A good example is the other Mkuze pack, a offshoot of the main pack that split off when the Mhuze pack got too big. And Pippa, our biologist, was very concerned. Her concern was well founded.

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