10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

Nothing was on my agenda for that afternoon. With forest on two sides and the expansive Eglin Air Force Base reservation just beyond, avian species have a host of hiding and eating opportunities. The feeder dangles from a clothesline between two pine trees, beckoning a range of bird varieties.

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Birds Species Woodpeckers Sparrows 80

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

If you try to analyze the hidden meanings in each birds caption, you will drive yourself crazy as there is no hidden agenda. This is the end of my thoroughly non-political bird post. When it comes to mixing politics with birds, I am decidedly NOT on the fence.

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Owls Birds Blackbirds Agenda 105

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I still talk about it to anyone who will listen and when we return to normal again and the National Science Teachers Convention reschedules, I hope to get back on the agenda and spread the word there when I introduce the new curriculum I helped create at Cornell. * * * *.

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Birds Reptiles Eggs Mammals 105

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2017

Nest-building must have been on their agenda, for they hopped this way and that with delicate moss bits hanging from their tiny beaks. The bird’s song was lovely, but we wanted to actually see the wren as well. Winter Wrens are secretive, hard to observe, but that didn’t seem to be a problem for the pair of Pacific Wrens.

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San Francisco Birds Species United States 45

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

Last year, I finally crossed paths with Cerulean Warbler , but this year, with little birding on the agenda, I needed something easy. Every time a return to Missouri, I try to knock out a couple more species of birds I missed when I was a resident there.

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Missouri Birds Species Mississippi 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Killing Hunting Slaughter Slaughtered 104

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2022

And in order to evaluate its potential, my agenda was to spend whole two days in the park and to produce the best possible evaluation based on that visit. That first field trip to Djerdap Gorge National Park, eight years ago, was made as a part of an ecotourism potential evaluation project.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Species 105

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Name-calling and charges of agenda-promoting ensued. Those unable to fathom how one could celebrate a life by filling the skies with latex locked horns with those unable to fathom how any type of alternative could be suggested to a family during their time of loss. It’s over; the balloons all went up between 4:15 and 4:30 on a Monday.

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Critter News

JULY 25, 2009

And those scientists are humans with the same motivations and agendas as any other human. Science does not solve everything. Science itself is made of up of facts, but it is practiced and interpreted by scientists. Science is only as useful as the hands in which it lies. Are those hands good or evil?

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Animal Tagged Animal Morals Science 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I chalked up 132 species in a pretty relaxed eight days, during which birds shared the agenda with culture. My own trip was not an intensive birding experience, and August is clearly not the most productive month.

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Serbia Birds Species Owls 81

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Ken Ivory is not the only politician trying to advance this agenda. We need to be wary of politicians like Republican Utah State Representative Ken Ivory who is also co-founder of an organization called the American Lands Council , created to advocate and lobby for the transfer of federal lands to states.

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Wildlife Hunters Utah Extremist 74

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The birders scattered and went on to other things, including my group which had Harlequin Ducks and Black-chinned Hummingbirds on the agenda. The Pac Loon never made an appearance. None offered better looks, however, and none offered a better opportunity for literary scholarship either.

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Birds Ducks North Carolina Species 81

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2016

The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. From Colorado we headed north, west and north to our next destination, a rental in Teton Village, conveniently located just south of Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park.

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Idaho Mammals Birds Wyoming 60

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2011

If interviewed on day-time television, top of the producer’s agenda for discussion would be the titillating subject of sexual role reversal. It stopped, turned and crouched, showing the short, drooping bill and distinctive eye-marking of a Greater Painted Snipe. Painted Snipe have their own family, separate from the true snipes.

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Birds Species Farming Agenda 92

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2011

No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Maybe, just maybe, an individual Kentucky Warbler with a weird song had been reported from that exact spot on the listservs and maybe, just maybe, my decision of park for our outing and paths for our stroll weren’t random? Pure coincidence! We enjoyed butterflies, dragonflies, and sticks.

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Birds Sparrows Kentucky Woodpeckers 64

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

They don’t know that’s not on your agenda. Here’s the thing, you know you’re not threatening when watching birds, but to the owl, there’s a large thing, staring at them–a spotting scope looks like one big eye. We all love the shots of an owl like this Great Horned Owl staring at the camera.

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Owls Birds Barn Owls Wildlife 109

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

Any other factories on the agenda? Would I ever say I restrict my diet to food that wasn't made from the parts of creatures as sentient as the greyhounds I share my home with? I don't think of that as a restriction. The kids made tortillas from scratch and then went to a factory to see how professionals do it. fun" said one (female) child.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Coincidentally, last night was a board meeting for our homeowner's association, and though I wasn't on the agenda there's always time for homeowner comments about, say, the petting zoo and pony rides that are scheduled for the spring "BBQ" ( here 's part one of this story).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2012

We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.

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Owls Geese Birds Ducks 88

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Interestingly, if this reading is correct, Sandburg sets up the man who is opposed to “doctrinaire&# behavior by birds as doctrinaire and by expressing support for l’art pour l’art , which could be seen as pushing an instructional agenda in the poem,sets himself up as didactic.

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Animal Person

JUNE 27, 2009

Film is a visual medium and through direction, dialogue, editing, music and any effects, the filmmaker presents (in this case) his agenda. The moral of the story is that it's all about the way we farm animals, not that we farm them that is what needs changing.

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Farming Chickens Fast Food Animal 102

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Hunters and groups like the NRA consistently leverage the power of Duck Stamp funding to promote hunter-friendly agendas (such as expansion of hunting rights on refuges) sometimes overriding the voices of non-hunters whose wildlife considerations are often different yet equally valid.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2017

Next on the agenda was the drive up and over the mountains with time to check for Bare-shanked Screech-Owl and Dusky Nightjar. Since it had been calling almost nightly for two months, I had hoped it would still come out and play on Global Big Day but knew that it could also stop calling at any time.

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Costa Rica Owls Species Birds 40

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda. Unfortunately, irradiated meat and poultry can’t be found on store shelves. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2017

And resistance to this anti-environmental agenda is essential if we want to keep our country, and our planet, safe for future generations. “On Wednesday morning, activists from Greenpeace unfurled a massive yellow and orange banner with the word ‘Resist’ on a tall crane behind the White House,” read the NPR story.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

But his real agenda comes out later in the graph: "However it is imperative that we allow the most up-to-date scientific data on animal agriculture practices to drive the policy decisions we make, and extract emotion from the equation as much as possible.

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Emotional Farm Animal Farmed Animals Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

My agenda is to help to make the Ross Sea an international marine protected area. Yes, none of the above. Vote for me! But what do I stand for? What do I want to deliver? This is WHY. And I do need YOUR VOTE for that. But am I qualified for the job? What experience do I have to confirm my qualifications?

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Birds Serbia Argentina New Zealand 75

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Those opposed have anti-hunting agendas and can not be allowed to dictate what game species are hunted. SmashDN Mar 18th, 2011 at 8:28 am Susan, Please enlighten us. I have provided plenty of facts. Read many of the facts put worth by wildlife biologists and understand them.

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2011 Kentucky Hunting Birds 105

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The environment is rarely very high on any government’s agenda when they are planning for the future, but with the help of awareness from the general public that we do all care about our wild life we can hope for change in the future. … Extinction is forever.

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Species Birds Australia Parrots 88

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Shore Larks were therefore very high on my agenda during the last few days of the year as I found myself on the island Sylt, where they can frequently be found in salt marshes along the coast. Then came the split and the reflection, making me realize I had not encountered this suddenly-species since around the year 1998, almost 20 years ago!

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