10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

This particular pair of Pied Oystercatchers first arrived on Cable Beach in 2007 to claim a territory. No eggs were laid in 2007, but in 2008 they laid their first two eggs and after three days they did not seem at all interested in sitting on them.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009. Technicians’ lack of experience with primates and excessive workloads are some of the risk factors for incidences suggested by the anonymous employee.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

Formed in 2007, this organization seeks to promote the humane treatment of animals by promoting effective animal sanctuary management. Led by professionals who have experience with organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States, the group is definitely not new to the issues surrounding animals worldwide.

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Humane Society Of The United States Illegal Trafficking Animal Animal Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

Another reader, with different knowledge and experience would probably not come away from this stanza with the meaning that I did. … This post was originally published on 30 November 2007. Either way, it is food for thought, and a reminder that there are at least thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird. … a.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Floyd has also written the ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado (2014), the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2008), and co-authored the Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada (2007), plus numerous articles–over 125–in popular magazines and scholarly journals. He received a B.A.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Puerto Rico Animal Legal Defense Fund Primates Research 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 14, 2011

In 2007 – at age 50 – I realized that the answer was right in front of me. I weighed 165 pounds on December 29th 2007. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels. I lost 30 to 40 pounds at least eight times, and 5 to 10 pounds too many times to remember.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Braunfield, just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (3) How can you tell the difference, besides the additional word in the title? In the next essay, J.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Sperm Whales prey on Toothfish and large squid and in February 2007, a 10-metre (32.8 feet) long Colossal Squid weighing 495 kilograms (1,091 lb) was captured in the Ross Sea. Now you know.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2011

One of the successful populations established was on Mana Island, north of Wellington, where juvenile Shore Plovers were reintroduced in 2007. It was just this tendency that allowed me to see them. The island is similar to Kapiti , cleared of introduced pests and used to hold endangered species.

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New Zealand Penguins Endangered Species Species 161

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

He started working on Birds and People in January 2007, according to the book’s web site, and the project ultimately took six years. Cocker put out a call for people’s personal experiences with birds and people responded, over 600 people, most of who are credited in the Acknowledgements section.

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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.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2012

Nonetheless, it was a pretty darn cool experience and I think I will count it on my ABA list. (First state records are held to an extremely high standard.). What would you do?

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Cape Verde New York New York City North America 162

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

People who adopt from animal shelters will tell you that it’s not only a rewarding experience, but also that shelters are filled with a smorgasbord of the most amazing, delightful, intelligent dogs you’ll ever find on the planet. June 11, 2007 Note from KBJ: I concur. Sherrill Durbin Tulsa, Okla., Karen Benzel Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.,

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Larry wanted to share his passion for birds and conservation and hatched The Birders Report in September of 2007. A First Christmas Bird Count Experience » To learn more about 10,000 Birds, Mike, Corey, or the many marvelous Beat Writers, please click here. Amber yes, that iridescent sheen is just the way you see it here.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The use of chimpanzees for research has declined significantly in the last decade mostly because of high costs and growing public opposition to relying on these animals in invasive experiments. 13, 2007 The writer is a program director at the Humane Society of the United States. Kathleen Conlee Washington, Nov.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 18, 2007

But bulls are not cars, but rather living beings that experience pain and suffering. Even private equity is getting in on the action, with one manager believing this could be the next Nascar. This is music to the ears of advertisers. Corporations should reject the notion that this is a sport worthy of their ad dollars.

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New York Times Flank Strap New York Animal Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Barbados The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas. Oh, Yeah, I’m Going to Ecuador!

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Portugal 2011 Deer Birds 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Lakes, lightning, locusts and lizards Great Birding Sites From Great Birding Bloggers Anderson River Park Never Disappoints Birding Kuwait The Other Antigua About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 180

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 3, 2007

Thank you so much, Wendy Hankle Farm Sanctuary , Communications Assistant 607-583-2225 x 250 Farm Sanctuary’s Farm Animal Forum April 29, 2007 National Constitution Center 525 Arch St. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Registration information Call 607-583-2225 ext. 221 to make a reservation or visit www.farmsanctuary.org.

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Farm Sanctuary Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Cuban Black Hawk, split in 2007 from Common Black Hawk! Nils Navarro Pacheco is described in the book’s bio as a wildlife artist and illustrator, with employment experience as a herpes taxonomist and curator, and current passions for conservation and helping young wildlife artists in the Caribbean and Latin America. 26 endemics!

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Diabolical Bird ID Quiz Red-shouldered Hawk in Forest Park, Queens, New York Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz #8 Cardinal King Usurped About the Author James A life-long birder and native of South Africa, James Currie has many years experience in the birding and wildlife tourism arenas.

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Florida South Africa 2011 Africa 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Safari participants also used two other field guides: Robert’s Bird Guide by Hugh Chittendon (John Voelcker Bird Book Fund, 2007) and Newman’s Birds of South Africa by Kenneth Newman and Vanessa Newman, commemorative 10th ed. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

of Nevada Press, 2007) features a cover by David Sibley. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience. There is a tradition of combining breeding bird atlases with bird art.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

All the so-called grey geese – Greylag, Bean, White-front, Lesser White-front, Swan – look very much alike, and it takes experience to identify them by their calls and their shape and size. The photograph below was digiscoped in Bulgaria in February 2007.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. His participant observations connect to his own research experiences, providing history and perspective. Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 244

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad Birds South America Research 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Some ornithologists strive for synthesis (see, for example, Gerald Mayr’s 2007 paper Avian higher-level phylogeny: well-supported clades and what we can learn from a phylogenetic analysis of 2954 morphological characters ), and I believe it’s in this approach that the future lies.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2007 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. And, of course, by experimenting with all sorts of new vegan dishes, you will be learning a new healthier way of cooking and eating. Join me in resolving to do right by animals in 2007.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Her editorship list includes Antarctica: Life on the Ice ( Travelers’ Tales, 2007 ), Solo: On her Own Adventure (Seal Press, 1996/revised 2005), and Two in the Wild (Vintage, 1999); she’s also written a memoir about her own kayak adventures, My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir (Cornell Univ.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Nonggang Babbler ‘s claim to fame is having only been discovered in 2008 (as a meaningless reference, it should be added that the first iPhone was released in 2007, one year earlier). One of the reasons for birders to come here is to see the Nonggang Babbler. On the plus side, it looks rather funny when wet.

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China Vietnam Birds Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Many thanks to Swarovski Optik for inviting me along and letting me experience both some awesome new optics and the natural wonders of the wonderful country of Hungary. ……… … I am fortunate in that I have encountered Eurasian Nuthatches on eleven occasions in three countries on my various trips to Europe.

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Hungary Europe Portugal Georgia 126

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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum. And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. Habitat destruction, hunting and disturbance are further factors affecting the population.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 183

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals.

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