10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. migration corridors from Argentina in the Southern tip of South America to Canada. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Begun in 1996 by the Humane Society of America, National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week encourages everyone who loves animals to bring public awareness to all the important work shelters do throughout the year. Bring Pets Home originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on November 6, 2009.

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Pets Shelters The Humane Society Homelessness 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. How it raised its chicks? The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” Where and how it gathered food?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. Also ferrets are curious animals, explorers, willing to take risks; they’ve had to be.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 171

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds. This foot-shaped piece of land in southern Costa Rica is just about as far from San Jose as you can go without leaving the country.

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Costa Rica San Jose Sharks Monkeys 248

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

It was not a kitty cat, even though all of its relatives in the Americas were. But they don’t live in North America. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. to find out her actual age.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. It also makes them champions at soaring, sometimes covering one hundred miles or more a day, coasting on thermals and keeping close watch on telltale animal behavior.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 212

Animal Person

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Basically the animal was five feet in front of him, and the boy shot him in the head, killing him. The father tells us that the alligator was born and raised on the property. Going to an area where an animal has lived for decades, and hasn't bothered anyone, and killing him is okay. Where's the hunting? Killing them is fun.

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Alligators Pit Bulls Killing Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 227

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 13, 2009

America has the chance to vote for the most remarkable story, and the winner will be announced in November at the National Dog Show presented by Purina in the Philadelphia area. This nationwide campaign from Purina’s Pro Plan brand promotes the amazing, but often untold, stories of pet rescue and raises awareness about its importance.

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Rescue Branding Pets 2009 100

Animal Ethics

JULY 28, 2011

Please see below for the press release.

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Farm Sanctuary Farm Animal Farmed Animals North America 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. Tags: national wildlife refuge , north america , parks • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food.

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Los Angeles San Francisco Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Animal abuse is a crime in all fifty states, and rightly so.

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Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. It’s time that our tax dollars no longer finance the inhumane conditions—for workers and animals and the climate—of factory farms. We know that animals suffer as well. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America. Birds aren’t the only animals who have made strong comebacks thanks to the Endangered Species Act.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Some of these giants were lost surprisingly recently – the last mammoths around 1700 BC.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 170

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. to a high of 11%.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

As members of the raphine tribe spread out and diversified, taking on strange and sometimes flightless forms on small islands, many lost their ability to adapt to new competitors and predators — notably, humans and the animals that travel with us. Choiseul Pigeon ( Microgoura meeki ) by J.G.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 277

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.).

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

to have and raise children. Dawn Fine Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:58 am Kim~Please forgive me Jochen Mar 16th, 2011 at 11:33 am @Dale: It’s “Jochen the guy who is desperate for a trip to North America&#. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al. Ecological causes and reproductive conflicts. I’d do anything !!

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 215

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Many of the most peculiar aspects of birds are involved with mating, whether it’s for attracting mates, defending nests against predators, or raising chicks. In this system, females mate and lay eggs with multiple males over the course of a breeding season, leaving males to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks. 1996, Nakamura 1998).

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2002 North America 2000 2009 168

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. Some examples of animal names working the other way around – with the Latin name sounding naughty – can be found here. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 190

Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

In writing my new book Hoodwinked (Random House, Nov 2009 publication date), I recently visited Central America. Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”

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Honduras Los Angeles Obama 2009 100