10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It very effectively forms a small foraging group in this manner. When unthreatened but hungry, the drongo will attract other birds to itself by imitating their calls – but this time it utilizes contact calls or mating calls. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. If you come across a group on the ground foraging for food, look around and you will find one bird sitting in a vantage point, ready to give the alarm call in case of any danger. This can lead to birds being poisoned. If that sounds stupid, that is because it is.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. It hasn't been your week has it, Daniel? We will attack your private life wherever possible.

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Animal Rights Austria Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. I waited…and waited…and waited.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 31, 2010

Founded in 1997, it has become one of the largest animal rescue groups in Los Angeles. Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. Event partners and sponsors include: PETCO, Central Life Sciences, Natural Balance, Febreze and Dyson. Kitten Rescue is a wonderful animal rescue organization!

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Kittens Rescue Los Angeles Fur 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, within the frog group there is a tremendous range of diversity. This exhibit has been making the rounds of science museums, and if comes to your area I highly recommend it, not just for kids. If you don’t live near a science museum, then read this chapter. And, they look like frogs.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected. Woodward’s Barbet belongs to a group of barbets known as Green Barbets.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 191

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 was the same day George Floyd was killed.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 226

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

To recap however, grouping them by their slight variation in body size between 53 and 67cm in length (21 to 26in): The biggest two are Yellow-legged and Caspian gulls, distinguishable by the presence or absence of brightly-colored (yellow) legs. at Gloucester Harbor Birding The San Jacinto Valley.Or

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. found that the Neoaves split in two just before the K-Pg boundary, and they named the groups Columbea and Passerea. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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Family Birds Parrots 2014 279

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. They are right, I think, in saying it is perverse that we can kill crows but not coddle them. Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS.

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Humane Emotional Stray Dog Science 146

Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. This represents 6% of the estimated mid-continental spring population of 322,700 birds for the same two decades. Tennessee found that out in January. But is this for real?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Here’s the petition.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

The story of the flightless Dodo, discovered on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and killed off by 1700, is sad and familiar. by Arthur Ransome, 1947, starts with an affectionate recollection of a children’s book, in which a group of kids identify and protect a possibly rare bird (Great Northern Diver?), Number 57, Great Northern?

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Collecting Mauritius Egypt Cyprus 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Without further ado, here are our Best Birds of the Year for 2015… Jochen makes us all jealous with a bird that most of us would kill to see. Finally we heard a single call and after some dedicated tracking in the undergrowth everyone except one of the group managed to see this very secretive bird. I was beginning to stress….

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. An interesting way of presenting images resulting from a group project; one that makes us think about the subject rather than the creator. I like it, but I also feel frustrated by it.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern). Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ).

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