10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Before finally connecting to the South American continent about three million years ago, Central America consisted of a series of volcanic islands. The region is also especially rich in trogons and motmots, two decidedly tropical families with a longer evolutionary history in North America than South America.

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Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador Arizona 207

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

These vociferous little birds can usually be heard throughout the freshwater and saltwater marshes in North America. According to Birds of North America Online , there may be several reasons. Back in the 2010 breeding season, I was able to observe a male building a nest at this exact same time of year.

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Sacramento North America Wildlife Defenders Of Wildlife 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2014

The beautiful Red-tailed Parrot ranges only in a narrow strip of littoral forest along the coasts of the states of Parana and Sao Paulo while the partially migratory Red-spectacled Parrot roosts during the non-breeding season in only a handful of Araucaria (monkey puzzle) groves in southern Brazil.

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Parrots Brazil Mauritius Dominica 167

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

But that is what happened on Tuesday evening and I had to suffer the email reports, pictures, and facebook status updates of New York State birders who were fortunate enough to see a Northern Wheatear , a bird I had never seen in North America, at the Croton Train Station in Westchester County. And I even got to work on time!

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New York New York City Kazakhstan New Jersey 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

With the help of a captive breeding program, the Peregrine bounced back, and in 1999, they were removed from the Endangered Species List. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 3.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 132

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that. But why cause suffering at all when you don't need to? You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. Climate change is the biggest threat to migratory birds this century. ” GL: Aha.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2020

A pair of Herring Gulls ( Larus argentatus ) from The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1785-1851). But no matter where you find them, the search for gulls is often accompanied by its own brand of self-inflicted suffering, for which whisky is the perfect remedy.

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Ireland Branding Species Industry 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds. Similarly, the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher is the White-browed Flycatcher in Chinese. Not going for the obvious either. Sometimes it works.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 179

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2023

The other species in the genus of Picumnus are all in the Americas, with the Speckled Piculet the only one in Asia. In contrast, Donald Trump can be found almost exclusively in the Americas and very rarely in Asia. In one study , this occurred in about 33% of bushtit nests, resulting in about 7% of chicks not related to the father.

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Birds Asia Battery Woodpeckers 147