10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

Crowned Lapwing For such a huge area of land with great expanses of pasture, prairie and field, I find it odd that the Americas only host 2 species of Lapwing. If only it were so easy for humans to strike such a well balanced policy.

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Brazil Protection Family Africa 130

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. There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them. Biblical tales?

Birds 212

Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers. According to R.D.

Turkey 202

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 202

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

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 raised its chicks? Or how gracefully it flew?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 160

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. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. My first view of them was at a distance. Their size doesn’t escape you. You think of turkey dressed in black.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. He came for the hawks.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 179

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. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more The book was illustrated by many beautiful paintings and a few photographs that were, as Fuller himself says in the Introduction to Lost Birds , of poor quality.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 267

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 raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 222

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.

Michigan 229

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America by Nathan Pieplow is innovative, fascinating, and challenging. The Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America is divided into three main sections: Introduction, Species Accounts, and Index to Bird Sounds (also called the Visual Index). Chandler S.

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North America America Birds New York 169

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The presence of this tanager in the Caribbean is a rare aspect of South American flair, as its closest relative is the similarly plumaged Scrub Tanager of northern South America. For starters, they don’t fly away from the moment they’re noticed by a human observer and more importantly, they sit very still for pictures.

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Puerto Rico Grenada Barbados Trinidad 174

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.

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Vegetarian Meat Lacto-Ovo Ethics 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

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? Mr. Kristof is attuned to issues of human suffering and injustice. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen any time soon. Susan Beal Brooklyn, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

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. ” GL: Aha.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats).

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Perhaps the most complicated and bizarre mating system is that of the Rheas of South America. They live in flocks in the open country shrubland of Southern South America. All chicks never know their mothers, most are raised by their father, but some never know neither and are raised by an unrelated foster father.

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Eggs South America Raised America 153

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. For the next two and a half weeks Sue continued to raise them, along with four other swifts she had in care.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Canada Wildlife South America 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. placopedetes occurred since the arrival of people and presumably was due to human impact.”

Solomon Islands 276

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 276

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. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rightly or wrongly, there’s an hierarchy of extinct birds in North America, in the United States in particular. North America certainly doesn’t want for wood-warblers, many of whom are more dramatic that the little canebrake dweller. Bachman’s Warbler was named for the renowned southern naturalist, Rev. John Bachman.

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South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. There are any number of concerns one could raise. How ecologically similar are the two species?

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 187

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 order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

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. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

2011 246

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 246

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? But I digress.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 205

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Humans don’t share merely a similar capacity for vocal learning with hummingbirds, we share share similar brain machinery , and that brain machinery is regulated by similar genes , genes not shared by hummingbirds’ closest relatives, nor by ours.

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

to have and raise children. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Should we see a parallel between the alpine accentor and traditional populations of the highest mountains in the world? In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed. Needless to say, this makes them quite pleasant to raise. Did Vanna love his cage partner?

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

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. Chongming Dongtan, where these photos were taken, is the wintering location of about 100 Hooded Cranes – about 1% of the global population.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2011

For native people, living in South America meant living with hummingbirds, and for Europeans, discovering South American meant discovering hummingbirds (and, tragically, exploiting South America meant exploiting hummingbirds, destroying hundreds of thousands for stuffed specimens and in futile attempts to keep them alive in captivity.)

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South America New York Alaska America 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood. Approximately 2,300 bird species inhabit Africa, however as impressive as that sounds, much smaller South America boasts nearly 1,000 species more.

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Papua New Guinea Madagascar Africa Equatorial Guinea 220

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

More like five hours, if you don’t count gas and lunch stops, and, seriously, who stops for lunch when you are after the probable first Great Black Hawk sighted in North America? In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 156

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Just to be clear, as the main demographic reading here is from North America, this is the Soccer World Cup. The lower part of this loop often has much less human disturbance than the top half and thus can be more productive. At the furthest reach of the garden, a boardwalk has been built to raise visitors above the forest floor.

Brazil 160

Brazil Birds Transported Game 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

“Spooked” is a bit of a strong word as I was very likely the first human this bird had ever seen and it stuck around for quite a while merely five metres away from me. I decided to go for my very first visual pitta encounter, a Hooded Pitta I spooked next to the trail. Mike is at the point where he is barely a birder anymore.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 185

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. Among humans, there is a tendency to dress very young humans up in the most colorful way possible. You should try it too.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 186