10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

I will watch the pigeons of New York City. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p. I started A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird as a Rock Pigeon hater.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. But maybe that is actually a good thing. Maybe better not to ever meet such a “mother” (given that I have been living in China for too long to be up-to-date regarding political correctness etc.,

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2013

As the only organization in New York City whose doors are open to any animal in need, AC&C rescues thousands of New York’s homeless, neglected, abused and abandoned animals each year. The nonprofit’s goal is to place every dog, cat and bunny in a new, loving home. They are New York’s Kindest.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

The landscape changes too: buildings get smaller, vistas are altered, developments go up or abandoned shopping malls fall down. This year has brought a lot of new birds at the Olde Homestead. I’ve only seen Orchard Orioles in the parks of New York City, and that is right and proper. Somehow, that got to me.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

This year it was an American Crow ( Corvus brachyrhyncus ), though at home in Albany, New York, it’s just as likely to be – and has been in the past – a Fish Crow ( Corvus ossifragus ). Well, it’s happened again – my first bird of the year was a crow. It’s all very inevitable, really. Just leave enough corn for the bourbon, please.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Before Saturday I had never seen a Pacific Loon in New York State. And when it completely abandoned Hart Cove and went around the point into Seatuck Cove and out of sight, I was even more unsure. Year bird number 299 in New York State and number 457 overall.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 2, 2012

Tidy Cats brand cat litter Scoop formulas with new Odor Erasers™ technology helps with the PU in the litter box, and now Tidy Cats is on a mission to help with the PU in life. The house has been abandoned for several years, and the property became a dumping ground for trash.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. If you want to address the problem, you do something about the people abandoning and neglecting horses.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2017

Here in New York Saturday was highlighted by a deluge of rain and wind as a nor’easter blasted the Big Apple. Nor is it fair to the birder who might end up with great looks at a lifer but will be wracked by guilt for abandoning a mother on her special day. *Or, But I for one can’t continue on this way.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2012

Neither even makes their own nesting cavities; they use the abandoned holes of other woodpeckers. Instead they forage on the ground, like flickers, for ants, or focus on rotted wood for ants and other insects.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York Harbor and vicinity looking for good birds. A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn. It seemed liked an innocuous idea. What could possibly go wrong?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Will Raup is a birder from upstate New York who helped Corey learn a lot about birds when Corey was first starting out as a birder. Despite the Cattle Egret ‘s rapid expansion there are some areas that Cattle Egrets once occupied, but have now abandoned for reasons that are as unclear as the expansion was to begin with.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. Photo Credit: © NGT/Andrew Baxt). Rescue Ink Unleashed originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 27, 2009.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

The nest had broken into pieces when it hit the floor in a clothing shop in Cold Spring, New York; but luckily store owner Elise Gorman and her customer/friend Pat Campbell sprang into action, which was where I eventually came in. I said into the phone recently, when I found myself on the receiving end of four nestling chimney swifts.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2012

But even the hard-core twitcher in me knew that abandoning the anniversary party that I had organized with my siblings would not be alright. I just had to hope that the bird would stick around for a day so I could see it on Monday morning before work.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2018

My teammate Tom and I have managed to surpass the contest’s namesake goal of 100 species in a day on each of these runs, and we even had the highest species count last year with 124 birds found in Albany County, New York – though that’s still a few short of the 128 Corey counted way back in 2008. Big Cranky weighs in at an imposing 9.5%

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2018

However, that very week came the unfortunate news that the Mendocino was shutting down along with its New York sister brewery, Saratoga Brewing Company. I daresay this is a balance missed by many beer drinkers who feel abandoned by a widespread move in craft brewing towards extreme flavors and unconventional ingredients.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

Many hunters compound their cruelty by abandoning their dogs when they are no longer of use. To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

To the Editor: Thank you for publicizing the plight of satos—street dogs—in Puerto Rico in “ Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment ” (news article, March 9).

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 25, 2016

At the personal level, philosophy challenges us as individuals to assess whether our own beliefs, attitudes, and practices are justifiable, with an eye toward abandoning or revising those beliefs and practices found to be unjustifiable.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 2, 2007

If we are to live in a more peaceful world, we must abandon the cruelty on our plates. Puck’s Good Idea ” (editorial, March 26): Thank you for writing about the restaurateur Wolfgang Puck and his desire to buy meat raised humanely. This issue is an important one and needs to be talked about. Kristina Cahill Long Beach, Calif.,

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

You have used up all your New York blogging material. It flared its wings, and the Osprey flared to match but refused to abandon the fish. “Self,&# I said to myself, “it is Thursday. This seemed sensible, so I did. The Osprey’s voice always sounds plaintive, and this one called out again and again.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

His nature essays are a joy to read, especially for those who, like me, grew up in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York which John Burroughs called home. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

This means that there were nearly thirty of us making our way up the dirt track past long-abandoned quarries to get the area where the woodpeckers are normally found. Then my iPhone started ringing, which was weird, because pretty much everyone I know knew I was in Hungary and who would be calling me at 11 PM in New York and 5 AM in Hungary?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. She runs the popular birding blog, Birdchick.com , and has been in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and on NBC Nightly News as well as making regular appearances on Twin Cities’ TV and radio stations.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

We should not abandon our meat-eating habits, but remoralize them, by incorporating them into affectionate human relations, and using them in the true Homeric manner, as instruments of hospitality, conviviality and peace. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])

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