10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

To herald spring migration, interest readers in birds, and make birders feel a little less nerdy, the New York Times recently clustered a series of articles together as “ Bird Week.” Animal and bird rehabbers are awesome people, but even they suffer the occasional bad apple— in this case, really bad.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

If, on the other hand, you managed to eke out a bird of interest this weekend, tell us all about it… I brought the family to Chimney Bluffs State Park, a magnificent slice of New York currently suffering from extremely high levels on Lake Ontario.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I suffered a deficit of happiness this weekend when my scheduled birding time became subsumed by a rare work emergency. After all, Pink-footed Goose is still on the level of continent-level rarity, even if it has become more-than-annual in New York State. Corey’s choice for Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. FEDELE BAUCCIO Chief Executive, Bon Appétit Management Company Palo Alto, Calif., That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York! Costa Rica is a country situated well south of the Tropic of Cancer and like most places without a winter, parrots are an essential part of the local avifauna.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. I only had one sticky trap bird,” says Laura Westlake, a rehabber on Long Island, New York. “A Here’s why.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Here in Western NY, we suffered a 40 point swing in temperature over two days; one moment, you’re enjoying drinks by the pool and the next finds you wrapped in a shawl sipping got cocoa. This weekend was great one for migration in the New York City region and a host of birds made their way in front of his binoculars.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2014

This one features passerines photographed in the last three weeks in Queens, New York. Guess or suffer! To help distract you from our whinging I thought it would be fun to try another of my (in)famous diabolical quizzes. Can you identify all three species? As usual, you are to put your answers in the comments. Good luck then!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Here in New York City we suffered through our coldest period of the winter with wind chill values dipping well below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Did you see any birds that you particularly loved this weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2017

Of course, Bobolinks are grassland birds and like many grassland birds they’ve suffered a long dangerous decline as the grasslands of the U.S. Still, they’re neither endangered nor threatened, either in North America as a whole or in New York State. are developed or otherwise lost.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side ” (front page, Oct. 22): PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition. McDonald’s, are you listening? 25, 2010

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2012

If you’re suffering through a sweltering patch of record summer heat, you may feel much as Ralph Waldo Emerson did when he penned this line: “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

The park is barely out of my way to my office in New Jersey so I figured I would be remiss in my birding if I didn’t take a few minutes to check in on the Dickcissel that has been there for a couple of weeks now. Still, it was worth the cold and the early awakening to get such looks at a relatively-rare-for-New York bird.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed. To the Editor: In “ Hunting Deer With My Flintlock ” (Op-Ed, Dec. 26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. MARIE BROWN Baldwin, N.Y.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. David Peters New York, Nov. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Suffering and injustice are inherent in life, and time is short. I also recognize that alleviating suffering in one area may cause pain elsewhere.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

Animal suffering and human suffering are undeniably interconnected. In 2004, for example, The New York Times broke the story about a PETA undercover investigation that found routine animal abuse at AgriProcessors kosher slaughterhouse.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. To the Editor: Re “ Humanity Even for Nonhumans ,” by Nicholas D. I was 4 or 5, and I cringed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

For example, here in western New York, our warm winter and dry spring dramatically impacted many of our fruit crops. But apples and those who love them definitely suffered most substantially. Some phenological oddities, however, are blatant enough to catch everyone’s attention. Berries burst early and corn came in early.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

Forgetting how one feels in certain conditions and thus failing to prepare accordingly can lead to a lot of suffering. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Barred Owl he heard calling shortly before midnight on Saturday night when he and Daisy took a walk at his folks’ house in Saugerties, New York. How about you?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

And all of this trouble and suffering for what? They may be set free once people realize they are in over their heads, ultimately facing premature death in the wild by starvation or extremes of climate. You don’t take snakes for a walk or play with them in a field or let them sleep in your bed at night.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

It was our first real vacation away from New York together and we were really looking forward to it. I found my oyster knife I’d thoughtfully brought all the way from New York for this very moment, and thanks to my long-ago stint as a sous-chef at a busy Manhattan restaurant with a raw bar, the shucking went very easily.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: It’s mind-boggling that in spite of overwhelming evidence that the consumption of animal products is directly responsible for a host of human diseases , greenhouse gas production and indescribable animal suffering, the general public continues to satiate its taste buds and support factory farming.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer. Reversing the agricultural trends of the last half century is a policy area where almost everyone’s interests are aligned.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Regardless of how much meat they eat, they need to switch from eating beef to poultry. 1, 2009 The writer is the editor of Zero Energy Intelligence.com. Steven G.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. This isn’t even including victories by that fantastic franchise named for sufferers of gigantism. Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Having grown up in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, I made the reasonable assumption that the Black Duck Porter made by Greenport Harbor Brewing Company was named for the American Black Duck , a locally common dabbler found throughout the East End’s many bays and saltmarshes.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 8, 2008

It’s not just the injured horses that suffer. It’s the thousands of faceless colts and fillies we never see that suffer from this so-called sport. Even the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand ended up in a Japanese slaughterhouse because he wasn’t proving his monetary value as a stud. Jane Shakman Ossining, N.Y., May 6, 2008

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

To the Editor: Why would publicizing the ill treatment of slaughter-bound horses detract from the “undue suffering of other food animals,” as Christa Weil suggests? Hope Ryden New York, March 5, 2007 The writer is the author of a book about America’s last wild horses. John Hettinger Pawling, N.Y., On the contrary, if Ms.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

But maybe that is actually a good thing. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. The relationship between Black-crowned Night Herons and Common Terns seems to be as weird as the relationship in most human couples.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 22, 2008

Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience. Several colleagues and I recently conducted a purely observational study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in chimpanzees previously used in experimental research and now living in a sanctuary in Louisiana.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

And, even worse than being hated, they often suffer being called Canadian Geese , which is just not fair to these non-Tim Horton’s-coffee-drinking creatures.) New York City has famously taken to catching and gassing Canada Geese so it is actually getting difficult to find decent-sized flocks of the birds in Brooklyn and Queens.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Back on Friday, 12 February, I was dismayed when I read the weekly New York City Rare Bird Alert email. Now, a Greater White-fronted Goose is not a big deal in many parts of the world and isn’t even that rare in New York State. After all, I had to suffer through it, why shouldn’t you?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Do they suffer any more or less in death? If sentience and suffering and "the mysterious unity of life" are really your concerns, you aren't going be eating any body. I think not.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Daisy had heard of an organization called YANA (You Are Not Alone), that was distributing relief supplies to those who had suffered from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, and that needed warm clothes and other supplies for children, so she prepared a box of clothes that Desi had outgrown, along with wipes and diapers. People are too.

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