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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

10,000 Birds

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

It takes a lot of nerve—or something that can’t be printed here—to name your rat poison after the animals that so effectively and efficiently control rodents but that are also being poisoned—as “non target” animals—by your product. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”. Are you still rehabbing birds?

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. The Little Cuckoo-Dove indeed looks like a cross between a pigeon and a cuckoo, though it is the former, proudly (and in my opinion, mistakenly) raising its own chicks despite the costs and annoyances of doing so.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. But they don’t live in North America.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds. to have and raise children. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. Scientific research and expertise are needed here. The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? What is forbidden meat?

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