10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

would be cats for me, but you get the general idea). One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds.

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Australia Birds Koalas Parrots 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

An estimated one billion birds collide with glass each year in the United States* and most of them die; window collisions are considered the second highest cause of death of birds after cats (putting aside the big overall causes, like habitat loss and climate change).* with a median estimate of 599 million. 101(4), 1989, pp.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Hopefully I will see at least that many species in 2014! Doing battle with the cat crazies and fighting to get Ted Williams back at Audubon Magazine. And what do you think they will be in 2014? Whatever you saw this year or plan to see next year we at 10,000 Birds wish you a happy, healthy, and bird-full 2014!

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2013 New York City New York Trinidad 187

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

There has been one successful clutch of three eggs since 2000 that we are aware of and that was in 2014. The animal is most likely a feral cat along that stretch of beach, but we also can’t discount a feral fox having encountered a dead one close to Broome recently. Pied Oystercatcher nest in the rocky sandstone.

Eggs 133

Eggs Feral Cats Feral 2018 133

Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

It is no more acceptable to confine 60 hens for their entire lives in a cage that you report is “about the size of a Ford F-150 pickup truck’s flatbed” than it would be to treat 60 cats similarly. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' Compassionate consumers can take a stand against this cruelty by choosing vegan options.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Farm Sanctuary Battery Cages 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2016

The last year that we had success was in 2014 and it was an incredible three Pied Oystercatcher chicks fledged by some older Pied Oystercatchers and they have been our most successful parents to date. I say “luck” because there is a problem with predation by feral cats and it really is beyond their control as it were.

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Breeding Eggs Feral Cats 2000 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 9, 2014

And because I adopted him as a 6-week-old kitten when I was 15 and he turns 17 in 2014, I have lived with him longer than I lived without him. Once I had completed his entire name, I moved over to the bottom left corner and used a cookie cutter as my ‘stencil’ to create a cat silhouette. cats DIY for pets'

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Kittens Pets Cats Branding 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

2014 ) showed through genetic analysis that the mysterious Spotted Green Pigeon ( Caloenas maculata ), also known as the “Liverpool Pigeon,” was a distinct species closely related to the living Nicobar Pigeon. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.

Mauritius 104

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 104

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

The paper concludes that “cuckoo egg laying, based on the appearance of their own eggs, is maladaptive for host selection” (I like the word “maladaptive” and will try to sneak it into my everyday conversation in the future – even if only talking to my cats.

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 234

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2019

The systematics and taxonomy used in this field guide follow the two volumes of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World (del Hoyo & Collar 2014, 2016) with some updates based on subsequent research that have already been adopted by BirdLife International and HBW Alive.

Saint Kitts and Nevis 182

Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 182