10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

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. The decline of farming, combined with reforestation across the region have been noted as potential reasons for decline.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3). Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. Little Bittern is a reed-bed skulker and much harder to observe.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 247

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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Los Angeles Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

Additionally, some of the best locations for wind farms are sensitive habitat and turbines must first be constructed and then maintained, which requires roads and other infrastructure. Wind energy is an alternative to burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, but there are consequences to the environment and, in particular, to birds.

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Oregon Portland Laws Groups 101

Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

No factory farms, no large-scale operations where animals are crammed together under a roof, never to see the light of day. It allows you to swoop in with an alternative to the disgraceful human behavior that is factory farming and provide a kindler, gentler way to partake of the flesh of others. It's just not right.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter Slaughtered 100

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. I believe, however, that there is another remedy, and one more in keeping with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. 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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2011 Deer New York Peru 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Soon after, Williams retired and moved out of state, and Eric was arrested by the Texas Rangers for a combination of credit card fraud (something about a fake field school for high schoolers in Orange Walk Town) and child abandonment. So that was the first argument for a scavenging phase.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

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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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 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! As I mentioned before, Lake Tucumcari is now a large dry lake bed, mostly filled in with one weed or another.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 120

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

They are the Desert Wheatears and Siberian Thrushes that abandon all reason and fly to Britain (maybe they heard about the UK Birdfair ?). Instead of freaking out the doves in farm fields up north, our bird flew over San Jose to make house just outside Cartago, one of the main cities in Costa Rica!

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Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Nicaragua 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. There is a God, I thought.

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Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

” Buyers, in a world packed and competitive beyond the imaginations of those who set aside these unclaimed and abandoned lands as forest reserves and public grazing lands in the early 1900s, are now everywhere, planet-wide. To quote Hal Herring, in his essay “ Can we make sense of the Malheur mess ?” As Utah State Rep.

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