10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2015

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. Lawrence University associate professor Dr. Susan Willson, who led a field study involving pet cats in 2013 and 2014. The testimonials all credit Birdsbesafe with reducing the number of birds killed by pet cats.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.) million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. Molewa added that so far this year 49 rhino had been killed countrywide. The annual number of rhino poached in South Africa last year rose to 1,215, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa told a media briefing in Pretoria two weeks ago.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 4, 2014

On April 15th, 2014, Skittles required emergency surgery due to an intestinal obstruction. Any funds that are raised in excess of Skittles’ medical bills will be donated to Cape Ann Animal Aid, a no-kill animal shelter in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Reader Bridget needs our help! cute animals dogs people helping animals'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian Anderson did a Big Year like no other; getting on his bicycle (a maroon Surly Disc Trucker) on January 1, 2014, he biked south, west, north, northeast, northwest, south, southeast, and a bit north, ending the year with 618 bird species observed, 17,830 miles biked, hundreds of miles walked, a few miles kayaked, over $48,000 raised for conservation, (..)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. How much time did you need to read this blog?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. It is being hunted solely for food, and those who kill them certainly want their meat exported by any criminal channel available.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. ProQuest Historical Newspapers, viewed July 17, 2014. This is curious, because these are not areas where the parakeets thrive today.*

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). These are not the words of a scientist. by Errol Fuller.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2015

The high nutrient loading led to massive and unprecedented algal blooms which in turn killed productive plants and changed the once crystal-clear lake into pea soup. Just this past season (2014/2015) there have been some pretty cool records of birds that are considered rare in Florida. A groove-billed ani close-up.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He was an extraordinary guide and an excellent companion by all accounts — including this eloquent post from the 10,000 Birds blogsite, where Strycker learned, just a few days before their scheduled meeting, that Hugo had been killed in an auto accident.

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Sri Lanka Birds Cleveland 2014 127

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. Now it’s late 2014, six and a half years later, and here’s what we know today. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2017

The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. In January 2014, ABC and BSBO sent to Air Force a notice of intent to bring a lawsuit, and the project was shelved.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

2014) — attempts to answer it by ranking species according to their “evolutionary distinctiveness,” or how distantly related they are to all other living birds. It is related to hawks and eagles, but only distantly, with an estimated divergence date not long after the K-T extinction.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2016

Any road-kill soon gets cleaned up and small rodents and lizards need to keep their eyes to the sky! They returned in 2014 and 2015 and now there is one back in that tree! Black-shouldered Kites do not tend to be around Broome all year and are highly nomadic. 94 south and 122 31 51.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The conservation and birding world, including 10,000 Birds, went into mourning back in 2014, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last of the Passenger Pigeons. A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. Passenger Pigeons, for example. And, then there were the droppings.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

National Geographic Society, October 2014. This is where the photograph appears, a representative member of the family. Dunn, maps by Paul Lehman. ISBN-10: 1426213735; ISBN-13: 9781426213731. 744pages; 10.1 40.00 (available at a discount from the usual suspects).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Thomas Mitchell had a brutal history of killing Aboriginal people, and in 2023 Birdlife International and the Royal Australasian Ornithologist’s Union officially renamed the bird. I like to think that the change occurred after the book went to press, though I know the MM name is still commonly used.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

In it, Bloch becomes LeChiffre, Fleming becomes Mathis and Popov becomes 007 (it does sound a bit better than Tricycle Licensed to Kill), while the rest of the gambling scene remains the same. Living in the Caribbean, in 1953 Fleming was writing the Casino Royale.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Cuba 150

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

The story of the flightless Dodo, discovered on the island of Mauritius in 1598 and killed off by 1700, is sad and familiar. Do you include objects related to conservation–a copy of Silent Spring , maybe a photo of one of the lime traps that kill thousands of songbirds in Cyprus? Bloomsbury USA, August 2014.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2019

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Western Australia. 12 Jan 2018. Little Tern – Sternula albifrons. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. 17 Jan 2018. La Paz Sewer Ponds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Western Australia. 12 Jan 2018. Little Tern – Sternula albifrons. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. 17 Jan 2018. La Paz Sewer Ponds.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

This is not your ordinary reference book, though it was cited as one of the best reference sources of 2014 by Library Journal. King Penguins heading out to feed, Macquarie Island (beginning of book). —————-. Penguins: The Ultimate Guide. by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones & Julie Cornthwaite. ISBN: 9780691162997.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Wattled Jacana – Jacana jacana. Costanera Sur, Promenade. 03 Apr 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018. Purple Martin – Progne subis. 03 Apr 2018. 03 Apr 2018.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea?

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