10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

By the early 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was aware that poison control centers were reporting 12,000 to 15,000 calls annually regarding children under the age of 6 ingesting rat poison, and rodenticides were documented as causing large numbers of secondary poisoning in wildlife. What to do?

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 251

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Just as the National Park Service marks 2016 as its centennial year and celebrates 100 years of stewardship for American public lands, many of our wild public places are being attacked by a small group of extremists as well as key members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. From a press release by the American Bird Conservancy.

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

If you’re a birder though, you had better have a police escort as some of my birder friends had to last week, while they went as part of an Important Bird Area data gathering group. If you’re unfamiliar with that story, here’s a video that’ll clue you in from BirdLife Cyprus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kk4B4YJWiQ

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Cyprus 2011 Killing Hunting 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

There are now multiple sites where people can contribute data on window strikes and bird deaths, including NYC Audubon’s dBird , FLAP’s Global Collision Bird Mapper , iNaturalist, and, on a social media level, the Facebook group Dead Birds 4 Science , run by the indefatigable Heidi Trudell. 101(4), 1989, pp. 606-620, [link].

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2017

Ashy Storm-Petrel : Approximately 50% of the world’s Ashy Storm-Petrels breed on Farallones NWR , a group of rocky islands 30 miles from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Further west, other sanctuaries include additional protected waters, including the enormous 580,000 square mile Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 143

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The piece describes why this corner of the world often has an attitude toward indiscriminate hunting that ranges from laissez-faire to Wild West, and also the toll that the ensuing slaughter takes on populations of birds that are protected in their northern European summer homes.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 146

Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. Mai Mai rebels are described as community-based militia groups frequently involved in banditry. Here is a brief Youtube video of him. Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. Another ranger was wounded in the attack and a rebel was captured.

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Congo Gorillas Endangered Species Wounded 100

Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. A press release I received from the Farm Sanctuary.

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Welfare Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Our group saw over 400 birds on our 15-day tour of the Pantanal, Cerrado and the Amazon (Cristalino Lodge). You can get a brief idea of their activity with this video (ignore the photographer commenting on the lighting in the background). I took a video that shows the quiet charm of our all-too-brief traveling companion.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. Fairy Prions ( Pachyptila turtur ) And then there were the “true petrels&# , insofar as that group has any taxonomic meaning anymore. The proposal from U.S.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 177

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Sadly, with a fins cut off (this video is very graphic, be warned), sharks are unable to navigate in the water. While there are laws in place protecting endangered species of shark from shark finning, international waters are rarely regulated when it comes to the practice. Let’s try to save these important apex predators.

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Sharks Asia Endangered Species Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

YourBirdOasis.com Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:00 pm Motmots are totally cool group of birds! Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. The word manky means many things in British parlance from dirty and disgusting to inferior and worthless. Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. The proposal from U.S.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

And a very happy Masemas for anyone who observes my son Mason’s birthday (probably not as many as the last group!) Patrick’s Day to those of you who celebrate the day we can all be at least a little bit Irish. While we’re celebrating, let’s have three cheers for the coming equinox. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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2011 Birds Deer South Dakota 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. The first Expedition was in 1981 and we have even caught a Bar-tailed Godwit in recent years from that very first catch. Wicked, right?

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Many of the fruits, seeds and flowers that make up a significant part of a macaw’s diet in this part of the Amazon basin have evolved with naturally occurring toxins designed for the plant’s self-protection. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer Fish New York 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But honestly, it’s probably one of the coolest bird videos of the year. And luckily, Spitzer had the presence of mind to not only snap some of his typically wonderful still photos, but to also capture video of this extraordinary event. There’s nothing earth-shatteringly newsy here, just a rarely seen behavior that was caught on camera.

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Owls Chicago Michigan Falcons 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

The Marvelous Spatuletail as it appears in a video about The Glitter in the Green. It is also a story about conservation: the danger hummingbirds have always been in from all sides, natural and human-made, and the ways in which individuals, community groups, and larger organizations are working to protect them.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? Dawn, you are looking coy in you profile photo. Any reason?

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 228

Animal Person

JULY 20, 2009

Check out Earthlings , the award winning video narrated by Hollywood actor Joaquin Phoenix. 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.

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Greyhounds Animal Rights Rights Ireland 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Most of the tourists, of which there are quite a few, opt to go on the tours provided by the Supporters, so by walking away quickly from the slowly coalescing groups we were able to lose the crowds quickly. You start hearing and catching glimpses of birds as soon as you land, particularly the fast moving Tui. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 151

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. I have always supported our wildlife management organizations for the hard work they do and for their dedication to wildlife protection. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? Wicked, right?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Isn’t conservation about putting the group ahead of the individual? Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Wicked, right?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Off to listen to some Rana sylvatica in the woods.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

As nutritionists have repeatedly pointed out, the government can no longer even produce a “food pyramid” that makes any sense for fear of irritating some agricultural special-interest group. If we cannot separate government from economic special-interest groups, then we will continue down the same path we are on. 21, 2008

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New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. I like the neophobia-exploration issue too. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally. The proposal from U.S.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

We relocated it to a native tree, so it was better camouflaged and protected. Currently she does full time voluntary work for the local Australasian Wader Study Group, which aims to understand and analyze the factors determining shorebird numbers in a rapidly changing world. Get yours today! Wicked, right?

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2011 Australia Deer New York 148

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Apparently, this woodpecker has a somewhat unusual roosting behavior, with stable groups of three and four woodpeckers roosting individually in nearby cavities, with many more cavities at the roosting site than woodpeckers. And it also comes as a video and yet another video. And now for something completely different.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I am sure that they have a great future in Nanhui as Chinese President Xi Jinping has just stated that “humankind should protect nature and preserve the environment like protecting our eyes in a bid to push for a new pattern of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.” ” ( source ). ” How unfair.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 209