10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2020

For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face. Population estimates from “Birds of Serbia: Breeding Population Estimates and Trends”, BirdLife Serbia, 2015.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

June 9, 2015 – It’s deja vu all over again. The latest press release from the USFWS. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photographs are powerful instruments in sharing the value of species’ existence and increasing the amount of humans who value species such as Snowy Owls. Ultimately, we truly care about conservation because we value a species’ existence and inherent splendor. Social media has become a major pathway for sharing photographs. 1999, Holt et al.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 140

Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015. Tags: ohio eggs california humane society farm animal welfare factory farm.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory Farming 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

27, 2015 Christian Gutierrez, Raymond Justice, and Carter Mesker went on a camping trip to Ka’ena Point Natural Area Reserve on Oahu, Hawaii. But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

“California voters have taken a stand for decency and compassion and said that the systemic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, the primary back of the YES! All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.”

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Prop 2 Proposition 2 Wayne Pacelle California 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

Pythons have become skittish and take to the water upon noticing the presence of humans. The 2015 annual African python round up, which is taking place as I write this post, has found no evidence of African Python; this includes no individual nor shed skin observed. The best chance to catch a Python is during a cold front. Rock Python.

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Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 180

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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North America Research Birds Groups 278

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present.

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Morals 2015 Industry Protection 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2015

Forty years ago, the suggestion that nonhuman animals have moral rights—indeed, many of the same rights as human beings—would have been met with incredulous stares, if not outright ridicule. Fast forward to the present.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Morals 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

In 2015, mice suddenly started attacking albatrosses sitting on nests and attacks have been steadily increasing since. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996.

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Mice Albatross Rats Honolulu 102

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. Storey Publishing, April 2015. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. 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. “Wait!” ” you’re probably saying. This is a book about the Bronx?!”

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here are a few suggestions for 2015: Lets get the incredibly unoriginal stuff out of the way first… do a big year. Wintering birds and migrants may certainly appreciate it, even if there is too much human disturbance for nesting birds. Frustrated that you still haven’t seen an Elegant Tern (above)?

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Birds Portland Oregon 2015 200

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

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 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). who knows what 2015 will bring!!! . Maybe I should not say that….who

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 186

Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Veal 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sullivan, 2015), Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast (with Brian L. 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!

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 210

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times). BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

His guides include our own Patrick O’Donnell, who leads Dunn on a quest to see as many hummingbird species as possible across Costa Rica in just two days, an adventure described in his 2015 post “ A Hummingbird Quest in Costa Rica.”) Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The White-backed Vulture was “not considered of conservation concern until 2007, after which its threat status has been successively elevated, becoming Critically Endangered in 2015 following severe decline in several parts of range and likelihood of continuing decline.” ” (HBW).

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Scott Weidensaul is a prolific writer of articles and books; his titles include Return to Wild America (2005), Of A Feather (2007), Peterson Guide to Owls (2015), and his first book on migration, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds ( 1999). This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.

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Cyprus Slaughter Research Slaughtered 249

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The photo is from 2015 or so). It hints at a very human-centric worldview – plus, it is hardly that the people honored by the respective bird names actually invented the species. But my photography was worse. Perhaps the best bird name in this whole post is therefore the Arrow-marked Babbler (Kruger Park, South Africa).

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South Africa China Nevada Africa 317

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2023

The photos in this post were taken in 2015 and 2016 – I was not only an amazingly attractive, almost young person then, but also a surprisingly bad photographer. I also only managed to see rather common bird species at Shennongjia, a nature reserve in Hubei province, China.

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China Birds Eggs Woodpeckers 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 179

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This includes current research (up to about 2016, but mostly earlier) on how climate change and human change are affecting the birds’ ecology and behavior. He’s written books on birds and art ( Painting Central Park with co-author Amanda M.

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Research Birds Hoarding Sweden 167

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He digitized and downloaded all of them, he says, in preparation for his 2015 Big Year — a whirlwind trip around the world in an effort to see 5,000 bird species in one year, something never before done. The result is his delightful new book, “ Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World.”.

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Sri Lanka Birds Cleveland Philippines 132

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This has been looked at in other studies for ectotherms (the most obvious sorts of animals to be affected since they get their heat from ambient conditions) and elderly humans. This is the first study of this kind on birds, or that would relate directly to wild endotherms (the elderly humans do not live in the wild!).

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Killing Zebras Birds Research 204

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. Interestingly, in April 2015 , I was here with a group of international birding guides, at the embankment south of the Strymonas Bridge, when one of them spotted a Scrub Robin for a moment. Over time, an unusual bond of mutual likeliness was created.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Because Loons’ coastal wintering habitats can be severely impacted by oil spills and other human activities, this information has important implications for wildlife managers. The Condor, 2015; 117 (4): 485 DOI: 10.1650/CONDOR-15-6.1. Here’s one of the maps from that paper: *FIGURE 1. Adams, Kristin A. Kovach, David C.

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Humane Eagles Research Investigation 204

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps. Mangrove areas are disappearing and there are natural areas of savannah in addition to human-created grasslands. The Introduction also offers sections on Conservation , by Nick W.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 124

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. Each Beat Writer was given the opportunity to share their Best Bird of the Year for 2015 and, as usual, we had some pretty solid birds.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In my mind, nothing beats traveling to memorable destinations to experience the grandeur of both human culture and natural beauty. Naturalist Journeys is offering an enticing India: Wildlife and Birding Safari – Birds, Tigers & the Taj Mahal package in February 2015. If you’re open to ideas, might I suggest India?

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Tigers India Asia Litter 173

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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