10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
Christian Cooper comes on screen about two-and-a-half minutes into The Central Park Effect , appreciating a Prothonotary Warbler at ‘the Point’ while telephoning a friend with the news (this is pre-text group), a nice hint of the collegial networks that underlie Central Park birding. Memoirs are rare in the birding world.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. I was mortified.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2019
. “Where they stop and water and get some food before they continue their migration,” the voice continues, and, if you’re not a birder you could be excused from a sense of confusion–is this a film about migrant birds or migrant people? ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.”
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Jeff Gordon is now just over one year into his reign as the President of the American Birding Association. We here at 10,000 Birds thought the first anniversary of his ascension to the throne would be a good time to ask him some questions about etiquette, the state of the ABA, and a variety of other topics. Your eminence? Grand Poobah?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2013
I wonder instead if this is actually about the difference between advocacy and action, and about the way things ‘should’ be. The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. Should lends itself to advocacy, a crucial aspect of conservation.
Animal Ethics
JULY 12, 2010
A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. Heartening as these developments are, there is also strong resistance from the food industry and from fake consumer-advocacy groups that are shilling for it.
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