10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Click on photos for full sized images.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
There was a link from Drovers, America's Beef Business Source. The AALAS Foundation has teamed up with the Whyville Web site to launch the Community Animal Research Environment (CARE), a series of educational games in a virtual laboratory. Talk about an unholy alliance.beef and medical research. Here's how they describe it.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “call types” in North America. White-winged Crossbills move east and west like a pendulum across North America searching for bumper cone crops.
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 20, 2008
8) The argument for the immorality of eating meat continues with two additional, undeniable premises: (3) The animals that become that meat are killed. Those who have doubts as to the accuracy of these descriptions can view the graphic but accurate documentary "Meet Your Meat" here or here. (Carruthers, The Animals Issue , p.
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. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Red Crossbills comprise at least 10 “types” in North America. Matt Young (may6 at cornell.edu) of The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will identify types for you from recordings and this will help his research.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2012
And, I started daydreaming about encountering something a little different, maybe a Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cornuta, a large, squat green and brown frog of South America, with a wide mouth large enough to eat other frogs as well as reptiles. Like Blue Dasher dragonflies, this is what I tended to see at small vegetative ponds in mid-summer.
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