10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Photographs of window-killed birds from Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Copyright © 2021 Daniel Klem, Jr. The more glass, the more bird kills. ©2012 Donna L.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 220

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. Because of their extra olfactory powers, many other carrion eating birds like hawks eagles and other vultures follow Turkey Vultures to kills. I think Turkey Vultures deserve a lot more respect from we humans and especially birders.

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Turkey North America Killing Eagles 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

After these trogons, the eBird description of the Yellow-bellied Prinia as “brightly-colored for a prinia” sounds a bit like the dialogue from Succession: “Tom: ‘The poorest rich person in America. The world’s tallest dwarf.’ ’ Connor: ‘The weakest strong man at the circus.'”

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Sri Lanka Birds Taiwan Cats 213

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. required to determine those catch limits.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 239

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2015

However, the ducks’ behavior killed the festive mood for some and left others with a glimmer of hope. Later, it was brought up that the now famous ducks appear not to mind the presence of humans. White-faced Whistling Ducks are widespread in hot and humid habitats of eastern South America. or these are escaped birds.

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Ducks South America Peru Adoptable 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. Here’s the kicker though.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

And, of course, the reputation of certain species of birds as troublemakers for humans is a problem in bird conservation, so this is worth watching. The big human and bird concern for H5N2 is, of course, that the virus will “mutate” into a novel highly virulent killer pandemic flu. Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds?

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Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

While not in New Guinea and the tropical Pacific, he helped establish natural history-based undergraduate student programs that integrate indigenous communities with wildlands conservation in threatened landscapes of western North America and Central America.” How it is being affected by human intrusions?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 160

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 find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Photographs are powerful instruments in sharing the value of species’ existence and increasing the amount of humans who value species such as Snowy Owls. It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. In The Birds of North America (P. 1999, Holt et al.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 143

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part. White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Biblical tales? No wonder ibis are so beloved. Scarlet Ibis , photo by Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 212

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. 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

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Long ago I preached the idea that rapid climate change was more important (in a negaive way) than large climate change, and suggested that the Holocene was different from earlier time periods (and thus, for instance, humans invented agriculture and large areas of forest developed, etc.) because the Holocene had little rapid climate change.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Other species are less known. Their stories are related by Morris in a narrative style that combines facts with anecdotes, dates with speculation.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 267

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. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. Their hallmark: They don’t kill.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. Marabous have also learnt another trick, and that is to follow vultures and scavenge off the remains of Lion and other large predator kills. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 240

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets! to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 202

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Here's the letter from Chris of Furisevil to HSUS: Dear HSUS, Like the raccoon dogs just a few miles from me, in cages awaiting to be killed, I cannot afford to wait for HSUS to do something. The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it.

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HSUS Fur Ethics China 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal. Following hunting season, animal shelters across America see an influx of ex-hunting dogs who were cruelly left to fend for themselves.

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New York Times New York Boars Hunters 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

I very much enjoyed the first section, which relates the history of the bird and its relationship with us, humans, from its discovery in 1851 up to the fateful Lake Mack fire and its aftermath in the 1980’s. Most of the chapters are in the first two sections; the future is a brief, open question.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 229

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

That system may treat sentient animals like car parts, ruin antibiotics we need for human medicine, and destroy rural communities by polluting our air and water, but at least it’s “efficient” (a word Mr. Hurst hammers three times). BOBBIE MULLINS Norfolk, Va., They’re about protecting a system that produces cheap food.

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New York Times New York Gestation Crates Gestation 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Scott Weidensaul is a prolific writer of articles and books; his titles include Return to Wild America (2005), Of A Feather (2007), Peterson Guide to Owls (2015), and his first book on migration, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds ( 1999). This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 252

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. Similarly, most people also agree that: (2) It is wrong to kill a conscious sentient animal for no good reason. Nor ought we kill them without reason.

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Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Since our food is delivered to us on a bun or in big bags of frozen parts, it’s easy to eat it and not think about what it was or how it was killed. We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets? We know that animals suffer as well.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

How far is the closest human settlement? Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation. Some rain-forests could rightfully be termed remote but again, human habitation is actually relatively closer than what one might think. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

There are three things that will go wrong: 1) The inland zones that would become the new wetlands are already, in many cases, occupied by human-built things that will severely interfere with this process. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Humans have made migration much more difficult with our roads, our huge glass buildings, our rapacious appetite for development, our introduction of predators. American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown. But even more dangerous are cars.

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Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. His decision to use his new celebrity (he was probably at one point the most well-known birder in North America) to speak for and participate in the issues in which he believes brings him to a place he’s avoided his whole life, the deep South. I remember that day.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. She portrays humans merged with Passenger Pigeons; the images are then framed to look like 19th century calling cards. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. . • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). •

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 103

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. 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. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 246