10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

Cliff Swallows migrate to North America from their wintering grounds in South America to nest in large colonies, sometimes numbering in the thousands. Near the end of the video, watch closely and you will see the swallow at the top, in the middle of the frame, grabbed by the beak and pulled right out of the nest!

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

9: Swift What would happen if instead of sending the Joker and Lex Luthor off to jail each time Superman and Batman caught them, instead they just killed them? Today they are superspies working for Captain America when they aren’t doing normal super-heroics.

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DC Phoenix Birds Falcons 235

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. All three are impaired when the basis of public debate is a myth.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

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 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Even the names we give to some birds reflect their dependence on the cultivated landscape – we have Barn Owls ( Tyto alba ) and Barn Swallows ( Hirundo rustica ) over much of the world, and Orchard Orioles ( Icterus spurius ) in the Americas really do have a fondness for fruit groves.

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Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 121

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.”

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

In Costa Rica, it’s also happening, not as in full force mode as the temperate north but that will change in a month when we see thousands of Eastern Wood-pewees , flocks of Eastern Kingbirds , and other species hurrying their way to South America. It can and does work !

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

When I see a band I imagine something slipping beneath it and trapping the bird, I’ve seen photos of birds with so many bands it looks like they’re wearing stockings, and then there’s the awful story of Violet , whose band eventually killed her. And to prove it, there’s The Queen. This filled me with both glee and dismay.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 248

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . .

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. Because their flesh and secretions taste good. because we've done it for years).

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Vegan Factory Farm Factory Farming Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. But the controversy of the ugly and violent Black Duck incident helped turn the tide of public opinion against Prohibition, leading to its repeal in 1933 (and a good thing too, or else you wouldn’t be reading a beer review on a birding blog right now).

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Ducks San Francisco New York Legislation 128

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights? No,” he said.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 151

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 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. Well, that’s probably a little bit true, but only a very little bit.

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Penguins Birds Cooking Fish 209

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Many bloggers who are pro-animal rights have either not used Google's AdSense or stopped because they discovered that, for instance, their anti-fur post was surrounded by ads for fur. I used to support the Animal Rights Zone until I discovered that my posts were often surrounded by fur ads.

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HSUS Fur Ethics China 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2012

This post is old news to those who pay attention to what I say on Facebook but I am still pleased as punch to point out that I have finally reached the 500-bird milestone in the American Birding Association area (basically North America north of Mexico). How did I finally reach this lofty peak?

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San Marino Los Angeles Birds Laws 107

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The second edition of the National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition has one of the longest book names in bird bookdom: National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: Now Covering More Than 1,000 Species With the Most-Detailed Information Found in a Single Volume.

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North America America Birds Family 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

In the end, I concluded that while Binford was right about avoiding misconceptions, it is in fact much much easier to imagine early human ancestors taking down Bambi, than chasing off a pride of giant saber-toothed lions who have themselves recently killed Bambi. You’d starve. Photo by Mikebaird.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

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!

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 213

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. It is not just a few outspoken animal rights fanatics who hold this view. Nor ought we kill them without reason. Cohen, The Animal Rights Debate , p.

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Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. Those of us who contemplate the trip need to know how to do it right. One of the strange things about the Kirtland’s Warbler story is the participation of Nathan Leopold, Jr.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. I remember that day. The final chapter gives some insight into Chris’s life post-Central-Park-incident.

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Emotional Birds Minneapolis Nepal 228

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Wicked, right? Herring Gull The Herring hull is everybody’s idea of a seagull, being present throughout the year at coastal cliffs, beaches, harbors and towns.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown. No other predator that I know of in North America kills and sometimes leaves its prey entirely intact, uneaten. But even more dangerous are cars. migrating Merlin eating a bird Birds migrate.

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Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 191

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. Kristof’s thoughtful exploration of animal rights, I was astonished to read that he continues to eat animals, like geese and pigs, for which he obviously has such affection and respect.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

The timing of seasonal changes is shifting, so that some birds are at risk of showing up at the right place at the wrong time (see: Birds migrating at wrong time for warmer climate ). At least 350 bird species in North America go to South or Central America in the fall and return in the spring. And penguins.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 232

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And if we keep exploring the undelved nooks and crannies of our globe, we’re sure to make up the difference, right? The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. Comebackers.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. They are difficult to reach and some are in far-off locations. Well yes, but all of the planet’s tall mountains are relatively close to some form of human habitation.

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Birds South Africa South America Feral Cats 215

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways. What a horror!

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

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. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes.

2011 254

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. What’s magic about 1970?

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 105

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Yet not mentioned is a simple step that will go a long way toward ensuring compliance with our already lax slaughterhouse requirements: Place video cameras throughout the kill process. The federal government needs to recommit itself to putting boots on the ground in America and elsewhere to inspect and protect our food supply.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York 2008 Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. My three orphans had left for Central America in September 2003. Six months and two ocean crossings behind them, my hummingbirds were home, right where they belonged. I know one thing.

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Assuming you have a passing interest in wildlife, or at the least you know someone that does, and chances are in the last week or so you’ve become aware that some lady from America shot a lion. Cheetahs would be quite happy with you shooting Lions as Lions are bastards that keep stealing their kills.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. I would probably rather listen to children on a playground than hear this bird for an extended period of time.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 197