10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect.

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Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

To me, it's another example of the Humane Society's growing savvy and clout in the US. Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. From the Associated Press.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. We chain them, use them for experiments, eat them in some countries and make them wear funny sweaters in others. I don't like it.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2017

This abandoned butterfly garden/ecotourism venture is one of the very few easily accessible, reliable sites for Snowcap , a stunner that can’t fall out of the good bird category no matter how many times you see one. Tapirs do occur on the trails at El Tapir but cool hummingbirds are more likely.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. ” It is not hard to find other examples of articles that Williams has written that have similar statements about him being an editor-at-large for Audubon. Pretty standard.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2010

For example: If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Abandoned during foreclosures and often the first to go when financial instability sets in, the kennels are overflowing beyond capacity with our loyal canine comrades. Earl Wilson. The book is $15.00

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

Especially because animals are made to suffer in the pursuit of human purposes—in the name of "efficient" factory farming, for example, or in pursuit of scientific knowledge—the utilitarian injunction to count their suffering and to count it equitably must strike a responsive moral chord. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

For example, turbine blades can be lethal to raptors, particularly eagles. The consequence is that the project will either be delayed or abandoned, as it appears that BLM will have to conduct a thorough winter grouse analysis at the site if the project is to move forward. Thus, the court reversed BLM’s lower court victory.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2008

If I can show you that one of your moral principles entails that it's wrong to eat meat, then, to avoid contradiction, you must either abandon the principle or abstain from meat. If you're unwilling to abandon the principle, then you must abstain from meat. Here is a brilliant example of this approach.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice. The current bill’s sponsors are Rep. Janis Sontany and Senator Doug Jackson. “We

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2012

We’ll start with Haroni-Rusitu first as this is the least accessible and most remote site but it is also one of the last examples of lowland evergreen forest left in the country. Situated slap-bang on the Zim/Mozambique border, this used to be one of the most productive birding sites in the country.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

If they were to be abandoned, the practical result would be more likely to be that human beings would be treated as we now treat animals rather than animals as we now treat (or believe that we should treat) human beings. Think of the difference between eating a hamburger and eating a veggie burger, for example.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Targeting a nest that is just approaching completion, the flycatchers persistently annoy the builders until they eventually abandon the nest. When out birding, I prefer completely wild habitat.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. There are some reports of the species having bred in captivity, for example, in a British Wild Life Park.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Second, it abandoned the standard format for field guides established by Roger Tory Peterson (who wrote the book’s Forward), succinct lists of field marks and arrows pointing them out, to engage in long paragraphs discussing how a hawk soaring above might be identified. Published in 1988, Hawks in Flight was unique for its time.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

Apparently, one of the threats to this species comes from the bioaccumulation of mercury in its feathers – though I balked at paying USD 40 for the scientific paper providing the details, from the abstract and the location of the authors, it seems they examined feathers of this bird living in an abandoned mining region in Guiyang, China.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr. This is what the female birds saw when he displayed to them, these arresting blazes of blue and purple. (p. Jonas D’Abronzo.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. It has been shown that courtship is negatively correlated with abandonment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2016

So, for example, males and females prefer to mate with a member of the opposite sex who has a blue and white pattern on its breast. They form and have lots of genes on them, but over time, all the non sex-related genes abandon the chromosome. So far so good, and so far simple. In many cases, all. In some cases, very few.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

O’Sullivan informs us that a fertile egg is finally produced (not clear if it’s from The Stud or the other male, the Bronx Zoo only has two males) and abandoned and successfully nurtured by a pair of Ring-necked Doves. Passenger Pigeons, for example. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

One example of a wonderful dog that would flourish in a foster home is Millie. A Pathway to Hope is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and adoption of abandoned dogs and cats, with a special focus on south to north rescue of northern breed dogs, the rescue of stray cats, and community outreach to further the cause of rescue.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

But as point and shoots have changed and don’t quite work as well with scopes, some people abandoned the idea or others (like myself) embraced it and paid for more expensive single lens reflex cameras for better photos. Then came smart phones. However, the newer models of smart phones has changed the game of digiscoping.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

I’m going to start with a specific example: species accounts for Common Tern and Arctic Tern. The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). Anything else?

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