10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). However numerous expeditions failed to produce any evidence of the bird and in 2006 the IUCN reclassified Madagascar Pochard as “possibly extinct”.

Madagascar 231

Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 231

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

If meat-eating should ever become confined to those who do not care about animal suffering then compassionate farming would cease. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])

Meat 40

Meat Vegetarian Battery Fast Food 40

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

On November 7, 2006, Arizonans voted overwhelmingly, by 62 percent, in favor of Proposition 204, to ban the cruel and intensive confinement of veal calves and pregnant pigs on industrialized factory farms. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds.

Connecticut 169

Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 169

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne.

Emotional 100

Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” Tongan Tooth-billed Pigeon ( Didunculus placopedetes ).

Solomon Islands 272

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 272