10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.” Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 255

Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Here they go again. Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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Seals Canada Killing Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide. Conservation Africa Mammals poaching South Africa' The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said the figures showed a 21% increase in poaching from 2013, topping that year’s total by 195.

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Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

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. For example, how many lies can you find in the quote below from this article ?

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Coyotes 207

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I am taking a sip of coffee, my eyes following an impossibly colourful Kill-Bill ( Keel-billed) Toucan , flying against the background of the Irazu Volcano slopes and, farther to the right, water-vapour ‘smoking’ Turrialba Volcano on the horizon. Quite a few mammals come out in the open to steal bananas left for the birds.

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Costa Rica Rats Parrots Raccoons 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

Apparently, not being able to kill large marine mammals with speeding boats is a violation of the constitution. Add manatees to the large (and growing) list of things that the Tea Party can’t abide. “That’s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights.&# Sigh… a.

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Mammals Killing Rights 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

The snake was wrapped firmly around the hawk’s tail, neck, and wings, and had enough strength to immobilize the bird but not to kill him. Key West Wildlife Center takes mostly birds, but will rescue mammals, marine mammals, and both land and sea turtles as well. It was an immature broad-wing on his first migration,” says Tom.

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Reptiles Chickens Sea Turtles Wildlife Rehabilitation 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. (The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.) With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Guyana South America Washington DC 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. because of collisions with vehicles.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Unlike Sean the martial artist, who is still alive, our Strickland is already dead – when he went to examine the geological strata visible on a railway near Retford in the UK, he stepped out of the way of a goods train on a double track and was hit and killed by an express coming in the opposite direction.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2015

My first live otters ever (the only previous one was a road-kill)! Birding Europe Mammals otters Serbia' Now, one by one, there are rising their heads for a breath of air. Because they aren’t fishes, but – Eurasian Otters! Are they playing or mating… who would know? Photo Matthias Kabel / Wikimedia Commons.

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Otters Serbia Fish Mammals 172

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 263

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

People are often surprised that large predators kills smaller species but its actually a common phenomenon and I have previously seen a Leopard carrying a dead African Wild Cat at Punda Maria in Kruger National Park and Lions killing a Black-backed Jackal in Namibia’s Etosha National Park.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Killing 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If I don’t think there is another passion that has anything like it, books that trace an individual’s (or a couple’s, or several birders’) quest to find as many birds as possible over a 12-month period within a prescribed geographical area.

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Birds Los Angeles Massachusetts New York City 203

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Additionally, Cathartes vultures are unable to grab, kill, and carry a prey item with their feed. What is unusual here is that these vultures may be sniffing for large invertebrates as their feet are no help when it comes to grab and kill a small mammal. Their feed are more like that of a Wood Stork. This is pure speculation.

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Mice Killing Turkey Mammals 166

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. While to my knowledge the Large Hawk-Cuckoo only migrates through Nanhui, the Common Cuckoo stays here in summer and looks for host species, particularly the Oriental Reed Warbler.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

Critter News

MARCH 27, 2012

The market for Canadian seal pelts has gone dry but the federal government will still allow sealers to kill 400,000 of the marine mammals when the annual hunt opens next Monday. For the full article, go to The Globe and Mail here.

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Seals Canada Mammals Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2016

The gamekeeper drives by, I wave my greetings but do not mention the jackals I am observing at the moment: this animal is not protected in Serbia and is allowed for killing year-round (one may say “hunting” instead, but I am having problems trying to spot the difference). All this happens less than a mile from the nearest houses.

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Serbia Sheep Birds Eagles 123

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 237

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Initially, I wasn’t that excited about seeing mammals. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. We also got great views of a very small mammal, Wahlberg’s Epauletted Fruit Bat, at Satara.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

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. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher. 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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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 235

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

As most people know cats, both feral and domestic, have a pretty big impact on wild birds and other wildlife, and the effect of mammals is particularly profound in New Zealand. Even wiping out a majority of mammals from the third biggest island is a challenge, and not just logistically.

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New Zealand Possums Cats SPCA 114

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The red-tail was really going to town on the carcass, which I am relatively certain wasn’t killed by the hawk but by one of the tractors that were used to mow the landfill. It must be immensely frustrating to have food stuck on your beak when you lack hands to get it off. I don’t know.).

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Bald Eagle Opossums Squirrels Meat 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Obviously we had interrupted a kill, but the Leopard didn’t reappear and we had to move on (to find the rest of Fala’s pack). If you enjoyed this post and would like to see more great images of mammals and birds, go to our 10,000 Clicks section where you will find our big (and growing) gallery page here at 10,000 Birds.

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Cats Leopards South Africa Tigers 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whenever I come here, I am focused on birds, but I have had some good mammal sighting as well: a roe deer swimming across a pond (only its head and antlers visible), a pair of otters playing in the water, a curious (young?) The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. August 4, 2010 ‘Static kill’ attempt to stop the oil leak is successful, though more mud may still have to be pumped into the well to close it permanently.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century. Finally, what of the audience?

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

As ever, controversy accompanied the introduction and accusations were made against the owl that it was killing native bird species. A study showed however that despite its very new surroundings, the owl was feeding, as it did in Europe, mostly on invertebrates and small mammals. Occasional birds taken were introduced aliens.

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Owls New Zealand Europe Mammals 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. How much time did you need to read this blog?

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. Six years after her horrific injury and survival she was found ¼ mile from the lightning strike, but this time she had been hit by a car and killed.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 228

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

If you have a bird, small mammal, or reptile in a terrarium, don’t leave them in their normal place while you paint or sand paint fumes and dust that are only a mild annoyance to you can make small pets (particularly birds) very sick, or even kill them. Take birds and other sensitive animals outdoors. Secure your pet.

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Pets Dallas Mammals Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. They primarily prey on the large mammals of the African plains, grasslands stretching from horizon to horizon. Feathers can attract gunk, and gunk means bacteria, and bacteria means illness.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 175

Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. We are overfishing, over-trawling, and mutilating and slaughtering bycatch by the millions of tons (17-39 million tons/year, not including marine mammals, sea bids and some invertebrates).

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Vegan Fish Industry Slaughter 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

Heartworms are easily controlled by any one of a number of medications designed to kill the worms or repel mosquitoes. Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus.

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