10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. Fruska Gora National Park with British journalist Mike Unwin who later described the experience: “The road passed through a region of short-grass steppe on the lower slopes of the ridge, where we spotted several Sousliks scampering for their burrows.

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Serbia 2004 Eagles Chickens 243

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

She has grown up in the reserve and has no experience of the environment of which tourists would not be a permanent, however boring part of. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008. Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2011

Back in 2006, Problogger Darren Rowse proposed a fun Group Writing Project challenging bloggers to put together a good “How To&# post. You’ll enjoy your earliest experiences of birding best if you allow the pros to do the heavy lifting for you: Let them find the birds and, more important, identify the birds for you.

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Birds United States 2006 Breeders 197

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

He is the author of many bird and nature books and articles, including Pete Dunne’s Essential Field Guide Companion (2006), The Feather Quest (1999), and The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey , illustrated by Sibley (2003). The writing style is both informative and absorbing.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 217

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

This was the High Island Experience, I was told. .” A Kentucky Warbler literally ran right next to me before diving under the boardwalk and disappearing into a thicket. Well, he did pause for his photo-op, unlike his cousins. It was amazing. And so was almost every place I went before the rains came.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 203

Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Researchers conducted experiments in a lab, then released the animals into the wild, making sure to note that "This was a much harder part of the study, and involved lugging around of batteries," and found similar results. Snark defined blogging back then.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. He started experimenting with silk screening to produce most of his designs, including the images in Birds & Art. White article on bird feeding stations.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2024

They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. Watching a drove of bustards feeding across the steppe, accompanied by flocks of foraging kestrels and singing Calandra Larks, is a memorable experience. However, the Lesser Kestrel has received help.

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Falcons Spain Europe 2012 188

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. In 2006 the Ethiopian government started building the giant Gibe III Dam further up the Omo River. The future of these tribal cultures faces considerable uncertainty.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 237

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2007

Barbaro, the magnificent thoroughbred who broke his leg two weeks after winning the 2006 Kentucky Derby (I watched both races live), was put to death after taking a turn for the worse in his recovery. It's a sad day for horse lovers. See here for the New York Times story. Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia.

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Euthanasia Dog Pound Killing Kentucky 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

And it is interesting to note that government does very little to subsidize the bird watching experience; state Departments of Natural Resources, for example, maintain plenty of trout fisheries to improve the angling experience, but not a single warbler aviary to add more diversity to spring migration! billion to almost $4.1

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Hunters Ducks 2006 Wildlife 237

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. In subsequent experiments, Heinrich confirmed that group interests could drive what an individual raven decides to do.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

I spotted my first Common Redpolls way back in February of 2006, when I had been birding for less than a year and was still living in Albany, New York. Though the Kazakhstan sightings are up there in terms of my favorite birding experiences my favorite pink finch sighting is a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch.

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Kazakhstan New York United States 2006 152

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lovich and Whit Gibbons bring decades of research and experience to this book. Press, 2006) or Ernst and Lovich’s text on turtles of North America, cited above. It seems to me that there is more attention paid to illustration and design, making things pretty and marketable, than to ways people may actually use the books.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 191

Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

New figures published by the NSW government's advisory body, the Animal Research Review Panel, show the number of animals killed in NSW experiments rose by more than 1,000 to 8,813 during 2006-2007.

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Medical Research Animal Research Medical Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2015

He has authored Woodpeckers of Europe (2004), Birding in Eastern Europe (2006), a monograph on The Black Woodpecker (2011), and numerous popular and scholarly articles.

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Woodpeckers 2002 Europe Research 237