10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. Hard to imagine nowadays, this majestic mountain setting was a major communist guerilla stronghold in the Greek Civil War (1946-1949) and the region is scarred by the events and the memories of them.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 270

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In any event, by mid summer or so, the babies are not so small and more or less do OK on their own and hang around the nest. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas.

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Humane Eagles Investigation Research 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

TE is practiced by state and federal wildlife managers; but municipal TE needs to happen if the annihilation of native wildlife is to be significantly slowed. Before the recent events you had to really dig around on the National Audubon Society’s website before you finally got to this page on cats. Pretty standard.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 272

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 215

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! The second morning, the winds were up, and the balloon event was called off, so Jeanne joined me in the refuge.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 123

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

It flared its wings, and the Osprey flared to match but refused to abandon the fish. If these two events were fables, the Ravens would have switched roles in mere minutes from big hulking bullies to cunning, dogged little fighters. The Osprey’s voice always sounds plaintive, and this one called out again and again.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Fish Bears 166