4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2013

With more than half of America’s pets being overweight, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed. Studies have shown that there are benefits of regular exercise/play for pets, with the most important ones being emotional. Luckily, there is an easy and FUN solution! 56% Happier pet. 42% Deepend bond between owner and pet.

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Pets Cats Emotional Branding 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. Many people similarly feel sentimental about Bald Eagles, what with their being the national symbol, but that is just an example of misplaced emotion.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

It was also in some ways an emotional quest for Audubon, who was freshly driven to complete his great work in the face of his first intimations, not only of his own mortality, but also of the idea that his beloved adopted continent was not inexhaustible and that its natural riches could be destroyed by constant exploitation. Logan, $40.00.

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Emotional Fox Sparrows Washington 131

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

It is a bird of the Pacific coast of North and South America, breeding in western Mexico and southern California. In the winter it is found across a vast swath of the Pacific coast of South America. Let me pause for a moment and discuss the Elegant Tern.

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New York South America 2013 New Jersey 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

She drops a hint or two early on, but you wouldn’t really know it until the second half of the book: Zickefoose and her family were undergoing a fair amount of emotional, life-change trauma themselves, of several kinds, during Jemima’s residency. On a couple of different levels, this is a wonderful story and a terrific book.

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Ohio Adoptable Emotional 2019 136

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

For all those affected, please know that America’s thoughts are with you and help is on the way.&#. Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane Association. “The destruction and loss of life is overwhelming and the community will need help in rebuilding, physically and emotionally.

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Missouri Rescue Memphis Alabama 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

The largest flying land birds in North America, they appear like folded umbrellas at first, their wing feathers draped blanket-like, enveloping bodies that naturally weigh about 20 pounds at maturity. I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

For birders especially in America, this landscape will soon provide doom, destruction, death, and decay. If you are mildly interested, proceed and read the caption. Despite being taken in Europe, this image exemplifies why forest birding in North America might soon be rated NC-17. American birders, brace to receive catastrophe.

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North America Europe America Asia 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2012

Amy Clampitt in “A Hermit Thrush” Not only are their songs of superior quality, but the setting of beautiful parks, clear lakes, and sparkling streams combine with the music to give it an emotional quality that could not prevail under more prosaic surroundings.

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New York United States Breeding Emotional 172

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America , more than 15 % of the U.S. I assumed that over the years I lost my resistance to dog since I had been away from them for so long. I was terribly sad—I wanted a furry companion terribly. population has pet allergies, mainly to dogs and cats.

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Suffering Dogs Adoptable Fur 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

Reading this chapter, I thought back to the emotional conversations I, a white Jewish woman, had with birding friends back in May 2020, mostly online (remember, it was still the pandemic). But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2024

While enjoying my farewell Portuguese coffee and pastel de nata at the Lisbon airport and studying up on identification I considered the planning of my two-week trip to the Americas. Hearts racing and tears of emotion welling up in our eyes! True to my own recipe I would arrive a day or two early to go birding. What a spectacle.

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Ducks Emotional Cattle Owls 149

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Going again and again to many of North America’s most hallowed birding shrines, developing a working knowledge of species most birders are lucky to see even once. And every organization, especially a membership-based one, needs its critics and does well to consider and address their criticisms. Twitching or patch-birding?

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Delaware Colorado 2012 Advocacy 234

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2020

During these months every Wilson’s Snipe would be busy with breeding in northern North America. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off. In fact, there are no recorded sightings of any snipes on Tobago between May – July. On Trinidad it took me some more time until I saw my first snipe.

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Trinidad Welfare North America Emotional 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2021

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Have you ever birded a place so young that birds still have no names ? Black-collared Swallow by Tyler Ficker.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 256

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. Although we knew that our animals were destined for the tables of America, we were taught by our parents to respect and provide them with creature comfort while they were in our care.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

crossing the Carribean and winding up in South America? Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. Let’s cover the basics.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 198

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Johnson does an excellent writing job here, balancing his emotional perspective, which has admittedly become obsessive, with a more balanced viewpoint that paints the characters he encounters with understanding, even when he is suspicious of them. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) On the other hand, Phoebe Snetsinger’s memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time , becomes tedious because of her lack of emotional disclosure. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. But let me tell you something: gulls are not what they would like to make you think they are. Gulls are deep and meaningful creatures.

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2011 Birds Deer Europe 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

You may know (although probably not since you’ll likely reside in North America) that a Siberian Rubythroat showed up over the winter 2015/16 in a small village in the Netherlands, an extremely rare and highly sought-after vagrant from Siberia (duh!). Marsh Sandpiper , Den Oever, Netherlands.

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2016 Germany Italy Netherlands 101