10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
Wrynecks are fascinating because they are woodpeckers, taxonomically and evolutionarily, yet they do not share many behaviors and anatomical features of most members of the Picidae family. But they are woodpeckers: the genus Jynx of the subfamily Jynginae of the Picidae family. They are beautiful, but in a different way.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2023
Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2021
Weidensaul’s second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies, connected by his thoughtful, narrative voice and the amazing strands of knowledge being discovered today by brilliant scientists the world over. This is a book that will be read with pleasure and amazement by both birders and nonbirders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2017
They were simply sent to Family Court. Can a 17-year-old who mercilessly slaughters helpless creatures – and then brags about it both in person and on social media – suddenly see the light when he reaches the magic age of 18? At the time, Justice and Mesker were 17 years old. Gutierrez was 18.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to? Like when they're about to be, say, slaughtered? What about being torn from your family? Not to mention the reality that there is so much more involved in being bred for slaughter than pain, and none of that is addressed. This is where I'm confused.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This photograph of a family working on feathers while the father looks on is from the National Child Labor Committee Photograph series taken by Lewis Hine. and the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act of 1921 in Great Britain).
Animal Person
OCTOBER 26, 2009
He is against it for himself and his family. The Nimans move him, as do several other farmers, including one who "apologizes to his animals as they are sent off to slaughter" (244), as if that's any consolation to someone whose life you are about to take when you don't need to. In all fairness, most people's only reference is PETA.
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