10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites. Anna Gagliardo1, Joël Bried, Paolo Lambardi, Paolo Luschi1, Martin Wikelski, & Francesco Bonadonna4 (2013).

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Investigation 2013 Research Humane 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 272

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Lee & Low Books, October 2013. SeaGrove Press, July 2013. Let me know your recommendations for books kids would enjoy reading, or having read to them, this summer. The birds thrive.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. I knew a guy who studied depression in a group of people living in the Andes, where periods of depression appeared to come on when the humans detected infrasound caused by distant thunderstorms.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 110

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

A hero of the Rip Van Winkle Rod & Gun Club is – no doubt – Bob Aronsohn, who lives in Kansas and in December 2013 celebrated killing his 150,000th crow. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 251

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. While many people were saying, “OMG COOL” others were thinking “that’s too Big Brother-ish for me” and a few said, “Oh hey, wait, what about birds?”

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 3, 2013

For example, in my course I learned how to start exercising with our dog, the benefits to both dog and human, and signs to watch out for concerning over exertion. Join me and other pet lovers on Twitter May 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM EST for a special #BlogPawsChat with staff members of PetMD University! Ready for some homework?

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Dogs Cats Pets Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

Maharashtra, February 2013. But, in the next year, 2009, only one human was killed by a tiger, leading to a conclusion that all the tigers in the conflict area (practically, the wider reserve buffer zone) have been wiped out. It is a success, despite the heavy burden of poaching and a human-tiger conflict.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 251

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. The 300 stories enhance the thousands, maybe millions of facts Cocker has compiled, creating a volume that speaks to a collective human experience that is rooted in both poetry and science. Random House UK, September 2013.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Vegetation is a key ingredient, and Klem cites a 2013 study that found “bird strikes were correlated positively to window area and negatively to development. The more glass, the more bird kills. A greater number of buildings in a concentrated area without intervening green space results in fewer birds and fewer killed.”

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2013

“Birder is what birder do” they say, and so I happily returned to the area of the Red-breasted Goose fail three months later, in February 2013, full of the optimism that a new year (and having beaten Corey in the year list competition) brings. No, I also have no idea what caused that eerie and unnatural blue background.

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Germany Birds Pandas Kittens 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The photographs were never published. 95 halftones.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 269

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them. Brown, C., & Bomberger Brown, M.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 202

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

4 (July 2013), pp. I think because we, or at least I, have a fantasy of every field guide being created unique and new, that when I gently lift the cover a new guide, I’ll find treasures we’ve never seen before. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Birds of Belize (Princeton Field Guides) By Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2020

With a reduced level of human interaction, the birds in this patch of forest seemed relaxed. More relaxed than I had ever witnessed – and this patch is one of my fondest, I’ve birded there numerous times since I was introduced to the area in 2013. We, as humans must strive to be casual, passive participants in life.

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Trinidad Pelicans Humane Fish 240

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. Still, the authors praise more than mourn, emphasizing that the most severe changes occurred before 1955, and that some NYC infrastructure changes have actually helped area bird life.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 155

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. Weidensaul, master nature writer, understands that the best way to communicate “big stuff” (my words, not his!)

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2015

The Florida Bonneted Bat is vulnerable to a wide array of natural and human-related threats. Habitat loss, degradation, and modification from human population growth and the associated development and agriculture are major threats. Florida Bonneted Bat: Photo; Courtesy of Florida Television Channel 5.

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Bats Florida Endangered Species Cuba 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The posts are on diverse aspects of bird sound, from recording equipment and techniques to taxonomy to identification to hearing loss (human, not bird), and make an entertaining complement to the field guide. And, they are an integral part of Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle’s The Warbler Guide (2013), another innovative field guide.

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North America America Birds New York 177

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. TWRC’s response to the outcry was a two-year stay on the proposed season.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 253

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. By 2013, this ratio had increased to 7.2 ( source ). A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%. In 1980, an American without a high school degree was 2.6

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 215

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. Princeton University Press, 2013. And, a shorebird is not the image leading off the introduction to The Colbert Report. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk. Images provided by and used with permission of Princeton University Press.

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North America Bald Eagle Falcons Owls 220

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

In our house it’s not just the humans that get to celebrate Valentine’s Day (although, the pets don’t get to indulge in chocolate). This giveaway is open anywhere that Minted will ship, and will close on February 14, 2013 at midnight. The winner will get to choose one 8×10 framed print from Minted.

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2013 Pets Humane Family 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Your gift recipient will receive a 5×7 photograph of the bird, a 2013 Audubon calendar, and a one-year subscription to the award-winning Audubon magazine, which features some of the best environmental reporting and photography on the planet. And hey, maybe that’s you – we don’t judge here.)

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Bald Eagle Puffins 2012 Baltimore 140

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2013

Due to the fact that the water is for human consumption there are no water based activities permitted at the dam and it is purely a nature-based day trip. We drove up to the lookout and heard the unmistakeable screeching sound of a Western Bowerbird , which was our 318th bird for 2013 ! Little Black Cormorants.

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2011 Australia Zebras 2013 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The organization is the same as The Crossley Guide: Raptors (PUP, 2013): photographic plates and brief text in the first half and extensive “Written Accounts” in the second half. Sullivan, 2013, PUP). I was really taken aback when I saw this. Reactions varied from confusion to distaste.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 123

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. This is not an exhaustive list as a few of the beats do not use compatible listing software, or have reservations about revealing sightings of sensitive birds.

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2016 Sanctuary Australia Ghana 154