Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

ALF activists burned the hunting lodge of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. 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. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Have you got any more hobbies Daniel?

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Animal Rights Austria Rights Animal 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

will walk to raise money to save the lives of shelter dogs. mile walk around the National Mall will be led by Cesar and Scooby, followed by an afternoon packed with Scooby-Doo-themed activities such as arts & crafts, a reading lounge, game tents, a scavenger hunt, and more!

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Family North America Abandon Abandoning 100

Critter News

MARCH 14, 2009

I think there are many disreputable breeders, I think they are increasing a bloated supply of pets, and I think there are many purebreds already available from shelters. But I can't help wishing she'd go to a shelter and save a cat that needs a family and a home. I am no fan of breeders, I'll admit it.

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Kansas Kittens Purebred Breeders 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

The old runway in particular is excellent shorebird habitat, and the open wet woodlands growing up from, for lack of a better word, fields, elsewhere on the property shelter nesting Warbling Vireos , Orchard and Baltimore Orioles , Yellow Warblers , Common Yellowthroats , Tree Swallows , Song Sparrows , and other species.

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

I had a clear mental snapshot, but I fumbled with the camera and before I knew it the bird had dived back beneath the safety and shelter of the bush. Note : Whenever you bird on game lands, make sure to check the regulations and schedule, and be aware of special rules or hunting days. Prairie Warbler.

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North Carolina Game Birds Tigers 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The only shelter is at the Sailing Club and there are also picnic tables there too. It is definitely worth keeping your eyes to the sky in between all of the scanning across the water and down the slopes, because the area is an excellent hunting ground for both the Common Kestrel and the Common Buzzard. kilometres/2.25 Common Buzzard.

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Geese Ducks Canada Shelters 102

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal. And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55). law is even more speciesist than the U.S.

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Sergio and I continue to a sloth shelter, where, waiting for the tour, I sit in a café. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. He answers: “Maybe the ganja those guys are smoking makes it that strong.”.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 155

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 30, 2011

By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM. Many mutts you can get from the pound or animal shelter make terrific pets. I strongly encourage people to adopt pound and shelter animals. About Dr. Tim: Dr. Tim Hunt is a licensed veterinarian in both Michigan and Alaska. Choosing the right pet for your child is key. Purebred or mixed breed?

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Compassion Guinea Pigs Purebred Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Houston Audubon instituted a ‘no hunting’ policy and by July 1995, there were 50 heron nests on the island, protected from mammalian predators by the large alligators in the waterways. Many birders left at the first drops, but I crowded with a few other birders under the shelter of the volunteer kiosk.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 233

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. Following hunting season, animal shelters across America see an influx of ex-hunting dogs who were cruelly left to fend for themselves. June 23, 2008

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New York Times New York Boars Hunters 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If left unchecked, free-roaming cats will breed and their populations increase at locations where they find suitable shelter and food, resulting in environmental/property damage, and public nuisance. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 226

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2022

The bay itself is fairly large and sheltered from the elements, and one of the larger rivers draining the Main Ridge Forest Reserve empties into the bay on the northern end. As it got a little brighter, the terns took flight and began hunting in the shallows. Observing them hunt was almost as thrilling as being on the mission myself.

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Birds Fish Trinidad Hunting 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 232

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman understands how to set a scene, fill it with charismatic real-life characters, and top it off with magic–the hoot of a distant Great Gray Owl, a Burrowing Owl evading capture, an old barn sheltering young Barn Owls, a tree full of Long-eared Owls in the middle of a small town in northern Serbia. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 231

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

Watching them hunt is fascinating. On several occasions I’ve seen animals that are making a beeline towards shelter double-back when the wings are spread straight into their waiting talons. We stayed with the larger bird as it settled down to the serious business of hunting. Note the huge wings.

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Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. We know what those large flocks were like.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 103

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

In the more sheltered areas the heathland is given over to eucalyptus forests. I’ve had a couple of great encounters with this species hunting lizards and frogs in the more open woodland areas, and of course it’s evocative call is a common sound anywhere there are enough trees. And a blaze of wildlflowers too.

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Protection Species Australia Shelters 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 307

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2013

To assess their populations, draw their blood, test them for lead, and discover what kind of impact feeding on gut piles might have on these iconic raptors, particularly the young ones, as hunting season begins in Montana. To gain knowledge of migration routes, wintering sites, survival rates. To understand, and thus to protect.

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Eagles Tethering Science Wounded 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2013

They are generally small holiday homes or cabins, simple and basic constructions built to keep you warm and dry a night while you have your holiday outside swimming, tramping, fishing, hunting and the like. A final interesting bird was heard that night over another round of beer and wine, as several Blue Penguins made the bay their home.

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New Zealand Charlotte Hunting Family 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The sheltered bays of the Coromandel are home to another endemic, the Southern Merganser. This fish hunting duck ranges from the northern tip of New Zealand to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands (after which it was first named) but is common nowhere. It certainly has no known relatives.

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