10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Penguins are cartoons, emoticons, animated films, children’s books (though owls really take first place here), sports teams, a book publisher, and a Batman villain (a rare example of penguin negativity, though Burgess Meredith did bring an endearing attitude to his 1960’s TV portrayal).

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Penguins Georgia New Zealand Albatross 277

Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The story says millions of animals may have died. While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. We are losers.

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Koalas Kangaroos Animal Rescue 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Tree, 44, has been rewarded for his compassion by rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) which gave him its Hero to Animals Award. I also agree with PETA that the guy they've arrested for starting the fire should face animal cruelty charges. And getting recognition he deserves for his kindness.Mr

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Koalas Animal Rights PETA Rights 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Although the official date for the Big White Bird survey is on October 11th 2015 the organisers are happy to receive any information on Sulphur-crested Cockatoos and Australian White Ibis now anywhere in Australia. They would like to know the numbers of these species around Australia on that date and surrounding dates.

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Papua New Guinea Birds 2015 Australia 134

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! Preface,p.xxiv.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2013

I often like to poke fun at how dangerous the wildlife of Australia is, as ever since the giant man-eating Haast’s Eagle went extinct the land life on New Zealand has been mostly harmless. But the thing is, while the animals may not want to kill you, it sometimes feels as if the land itself does.

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New Zealand Vanuatu Australia Hawaii 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

” His classes attracted diverse groups of students, often with little scientific background: “Students have to first pass biology, but most come in knowing next to nothing about birds except that they can fly, that they have feathers, and that they lay eggs.”. and from Australia. And many become birders.

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2018 Agenda Science Eggs 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

Type it in and you’ll find articles about a showy South African plant, trailers for two films (one of which was pre-Code and apparently created a sensation), eleven novels, a romance novel series, an animated children’s film, socks, and no less than nine coloring books. —– * There are some conflicts in these numbers.

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Guinea Birds Papua New Guinea Family 260

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

’s list because those birds have closer living relatives than some other birds do, despite their membership in the oldest extant group. The large, pied, knob-headed Magpie Goose of Australia and New Guinea is the sole living member of an early anseriform waterfowl lineage. ’s list. The story just keeps getting better.

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 274

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Last week I had the privilege of taking a group of Queens middle-schoolers birding in Forest Park as part of an after-school program. And should there be a lump, maybe only the crossword-puzzle nerds and birders in Australia, where you can find the Hoary-headed Grebe. Then we looked for some common species.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you come across a group on the ground foraging for food, look around and you will find one bird sitting in a vantage point, ready to give the alarm call in case of any danger. As usual at Kruger, there are a few animals that are irrelevant for birders. Or at least an “angry-looking bird” ( source ). ” ( source ) .

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2010

We recently got a chance to check out a lovely line of jewelry that celebrates animals, and supports the ASPCA! It’s called Heart U Back , and they offer a lot of fashion forward choices for animal lovers. This special grouping of bracelets, charms, pendants, and earrings is fashionable and fun to wear.

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RSPCA ASPCA Collecting Pets 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 164

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars. An interesting way of presenting images resulting from a group project; one that makes us think about the subject rather than the creator. I like it, but I also feel frustrated by it.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Owls live and migrate from Arctic circumpolar to Colorado prairie to South American rainforest to Southeast Asian islands, Galapagos islands, Canary islands–many many islands–to coastal Australia and onward. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 199

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 13, 2009

The grand prize winner will receive a Bark Busters in-home dog training service ($495 value), complete with a written lifetime guarantee as well as the opportunity to host a Bark Busters group training session for 10 of their friends’ dogs. Bark Busters was founded in Australia in 1989 by renowned behaviour therapists Danny and Sylvia Wilson.

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Dogs Dog Training Belgium 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 271

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The kid was about seven but utterly enthusiastic and capable of reciting great swathes of facts about animals and where he had seen this bird or animal – it reminded me a little of myself at that age! Spotted Pardalotes are uniquely Australian birds. A pitta, in Sydney, in winter, is a pretty mega bird. was a Powerful Owl.

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Owls Birds Neglecting Hawaii 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2013

As we wandered along the trail we soon encountered family groups of both White-winged Fairywrens and Variegated Fairywrens. There was also evidence of the damage that feral pigs can do all along the trail and along the water’s edge and we soon came across a small group of them. Orange Chat. Feral pigs.

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Feral Pelicans Ducks Pigs 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

WARNING:- This post shows animal predation… Whenever we go north from Broome we stop in at Parry’s Nature Reserve and visit Marlgu Billabong. The water level varies greatly on each visit and the birdlife varies accordingly. Before I could even get my camera ready it was gone.

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Pelicans Investigation Raised Fish 155

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

They will often fly at both people and other animals in defense of their eggs and young. They are often in large groups in these areas when they are not breeding. A good indication that they have eggs or young is the extreme noise that they make.

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Breeding Cows Eggs 2012 143

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead.

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Africa Gabon South Africa Uganda 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I bring this up because there have been two stories bubbling along that are weirdly connected to each other, and ultimately to the struggle between realism and idealism.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

In polygynandrous systems, broods may be raised by groups of males (either with or without the help of females) (Briskie 1992, 2009, Nakamura 1998). Animal Behavior , 55 259-275 Owens, IPF (2002) Male-only care and classical polyandry in birds: phylogeny, ecology and sex differences in remating opportunities. 1996, Nakamura 1998).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1903, the distinguished Elliott Coues declared , “This is a definite and perfectly natural group, which will be immediately recognized by the foregoing characters, one of which, complete webbing of hallux, is not elsewhere observed among birds.&# He could not say the same today. almost everything about flamingos and grebes).

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 151

Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. June 29, 2007 The writer, a consultant, was vice president for agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, a trade group, from 1997 to 2005. There is in reality no greener approach than biotechnology. Val Giddings Silver Spring, Md.,

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