10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

But that may be an exercise in closing the barn door after the horse is out, if the Associate Press story linked to above is any indication: ”… the wind energy industry has pushed for, and the White House is currently evaluating, giving companies permission to kill a set number of eagles for 30 years.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Industry United States 207

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Nevertheless, killing an eagle is a federal crime in the United States, and recently a wind energy company linked to eagle deaths settled with the federal government. The National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy both issued press releases blasting the administration for the rule change.

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Eagles Bald Eagle Farming Obama 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We got some press ! Wait, you actually killed someone? We got some good press and the duck is wandering around Manhattan now. A thousand apologies. I left the knife I was planning on cutting the band off with in the body of the witness. Good news, though! To: Sparrow. From: Tyrannus. Date: 11 October 2018. RE: Band on Duck.

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Ducks 2018 New York City Sparrows 142

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. Some of the most prolific killing fields were in the marshes of the American West (I knew about Florida but was surprised at how widespread it was), where men shot birds such as grebes, terns, pelicans, snowy egrets, and great egrets.

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Hunters Oregon San Francisco Portland 190

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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Mountain Lions Lions Humane Society Of The United States Idaho 100

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. 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. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.

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Rats Barn Owls Rodents San Francisco 236

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

If you were in a position to take non-birders outside to promote conservation, say a local polititian or the press or whoever could get active to increase biodiversity values in whichever way – do not consider taking them near Black-tailed Godwits. Seriously, they hate our guts.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 173

Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.

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Whales Whaling Marine Life Alaska 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Imprisoned NFL star Michael Vick will be allowed to finish his sentence under home confinement because there is no room at a halfway house for him, a government official told The Associated Press Thursday. He also admitted to participating in the killing of several underperforming dogs.

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Michael Vick Pit Bulls Animal Abuse Animal Cruelty 100

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. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 226

Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.

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Congo Gorillas illegal Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

Occasional stories in the British press remind us that such disgraceful violence against Scottish raptors, while perhaps no longer celebrated so triumphantly on canvas, has not yet been consigned to the annals of history.

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Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 157

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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. It was a fresh kill, and though it might take hours, the observers knew that eventually the leopard was going to come back for his breakfast.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here is the press release, which explains why they are trying to do this. This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax. But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. Photograph Credits: Book cover courtesy of University of Michigan Press. By William Rapai. Hardcover, $24.95

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 221

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). These are not the words of a scientist. by Errol Fuller.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 264

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 20, 2012

Being homeless, at first, this cat became one of the top-figures in press, both newspapers and TVs: even Oprah Winfrey has talked about her in own talk-show! All in all, Karen had to make a dramatic and hard decision of mercy killing to stop the agony of her pet, which happened on October 2008, when Scarlett peacefully passed in Karen’s arms.

Homelessness 100

Homelessness Cats Kittens 2008 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The illustrations of bird behavior–a Laughing Falcon with a kill, Swainson’s, a Crested Caracara with its head thrown back–offer opportunities for a little individual style to shine through. Press, 2000), and over 140 journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings. Princeton University Press, 2017.

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Mexico America North America Falcons 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

I want to give credit to the publishers, Princeton University Press and the Natural History Museum of London, for the quality of the printing. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. All photographs, with the exception of the last, are used with the permission of Princeton University Press. Green, Tree, Leaf, or Poison Dart?

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. ISBN-10: 1781316546; ISBN-13: 978-1781316542.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

Animal Ethics

MARCH 16, 2007

They may be killed in order to protect the health of humans (and other animals) if they are infected with a serious disease and cannot be quarantined. Franklin, Animal Rights and Moral Philosophy [New York: Columbia University Press, 2005], 125) This follows from everything said in the text about the rights of animals.

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Research Medical Research Morals Animal 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

The NRDC's press release in response to the Bush administration's actions can be found here. Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S. Critics contend sonar has harmful effects on whales, possibly by damaging their hearing, and other marine mammals worldwide.

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Whales Whaling Los Angeles Mammals 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Vegan 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.

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Meat Meat Industry Farm Animal Farmed Animals 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

Most of Waldman’s Introduction, for example, is based on five photographs and drawings illustrating random, perhaps representational, examples of how New Yorkers relate to nature in the past (a shark is killed in the Gowanus Canal in 1950) and the present (the fight to re-install the nest of my spark bird, Pale Male). Just a little.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 106

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. Beacon Press, 2012. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly. —————-.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 180

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Doubtless it may and will be suggested that someone opposed to inflicting suffering on animals but not to painlessly killing them could still consistently eat the flesh of animals that had been reared and slaughtered painlessly; but Singer rejects such a suggestion on three counts.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Slaughter 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Generally, this is not a bird getting a lot of good press. If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior. This is what killed James Dean. In terms of design, the Pied Currawong also seems to be inspired by satan, and I mean this in the best possible way.

Birds 217

Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman Penguin Press, June 2023 352 pages; illus. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law.

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Ohio Endangered Species 2016 Birds 104

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways. The Passenger Pigeon.

2014 159

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. In part this was due to the outstanding way the reporting was handled by the press. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here.

Collecting 214

Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 214

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? Those who harvest are unfortunately myopic, seeing only the instant gratification of the meal or the kill. Those that are out to kill this species for their own pleasure.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239