10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. For many birders, the Pel’s Fishing Owl roosts in a lofty position on just such a list. Sure they are uncommon and tough to find.

Owls 251

Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 251

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. About one hundred yards away an Anhinga surfaced with a freshly skewered fish.

Trinidad 210

Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

There is a tin fishing hut on stilts and some sort of netting across the lagoon, either to prevent the larger fish getting in, or getting out of it. A few moored boats with piles of fishing nets, but no people. Well, this dirt track is only for dogs and birders, that is for sure. Barn Swallows and Sand Martins (a.k.a.

Greece 235

Greece Dogs Pelicans Fish 235

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.

Serbia 249

Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 249

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. This has typically not been a problem as there isn’t generally a great deal to see in caves that isn’t a horrifying bug or a cave fish, and really, I’m fine not seeing them. A Bat Hawk hunting bats.

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

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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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 213