10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System : Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2019

A while back, I wrote about an under-appreciated part of the National Wildlife Refuge System : Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs). Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

In Sydney, refuse is an important constituent of the diet during the breeding season (HBW), and a study conducted in 1970 describes a number of strategies by which these gulls steal food from Crested Terns. This makes the marketing of a Queensland vacation home as Silver Gull Court a bit questionable. Feel free to call me shallow.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Otrada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). Several of Otrada’s jewelry items, gift ornaments, and belt buckles can be customized with your animal’s photograph.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Ortada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). Several of Ortada’s jewelry items, gift ornaments, and belt buckles can be customized with your animal’s photograph.

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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. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region. Enough History – Back to the Future. And the Mammals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2009

They make fun tees, customized with your dog breed (or, even from a photo of your own dog). We could not have been happier with the end product. Fun product that also does good for animals? Pleasant-Tees Custom Canine Tees originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on August 18, 2009. Four paws up!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2014

The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Students of animal behavior suggest that making the connection between intentionally dropping something on the water and expect a crowd of fish around the bait and subsequent consumption is very difficult. Some individuals are somehow smarter than others.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Having mobility issues, I still remember birding from a van along a rather productive dirt road in Costa Rica ( Broad-billed Motmot , Lineated Woodpecker , Cocoa Woodcreeper , etc.), stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 20, 2010

Other than just looking great, there are real benefits about this product! They are great for medium and large sized dog breeds. Visit the Pet Projekt website for all the options and to view their other great products. Pet Projekt originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 20, 2010.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2010

It’s stocked full of high quality dog treats, interactive toys & accessories and artistic dog themed products. The winner will get their choice of Palm Puppy from the available breeds (you will be sent a list when you are notified of winning). Tags: giveaways people helping animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That being said, continue reading below to learn some safety-animal tips for your pet this winter. Knit Your Pet a Sweater—Ok ok, you don’t actually have to knit a sweater from scratch, but dressing your furry friend in warm attire is a great way to keep your pet nice and toasty, especially the smaller and light-fur breeds.

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Animal Person

JULY 10, 2009

I was thinking about the Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary calendar of rescued animals photographed by Deb Durant that's on my refrigerator. It's on the refrigerator, but when you open the refrigerator door you'll see nothing that came from the animals in the calendar. People flock to photos and calendars on refrigerators.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

It’s entirely possible that these birds were employed in vineyard pest control as well; as several modern wineries have rediscovered, falconry is an excellent means by which to deter other animals looking to devour their precious grapes. A more recent example of the long and beneficial relationship between falconry and winemaking.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Then there are the myriad entry points to thinking about how we use animals and the impact that has on the animals, the planet, our bodies and our consciences. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day. You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2017

The PUP WildGuides are a quality act with high production values, knowledgeable authors, beautiful photographs, introductions in the front that describe habitat and indexes in the back. This is an important niche that is too often filled with laminated folders and colorful paperbacks of varying accuracy and quality.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2012

As any dog groomer knows, a pup’s fur is much like Michelangelo’s marble: the finished product is waiting inside. Of course, there is a certain dog breed that already has a head start in the matter. Django Gold is a writer with Wet Nose Guide , a searchable database that lists dog businesses throughout the country.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 8, 2009

What Is an Animal Part? The last example suggests the difficulty of making a clear distinction between an animal part and an animal product. If a genetically engineered animal’s legs periodically fell off, would not its legs be more like a product of an animal (analogous to eggs) than a part of the animal?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. In this film, we see farmers interacting with the animals they will eventually transform into food (chickens, pigs and cattle).

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. The design of Animal Person is probably as uninviting as it could possibly be. Big fail here for Animal Person.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 30, 2009

last year—28 million pounds—went to pigs, chickens, and cows, which in turn creates a perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant super germs. Many of these antibiotics are routinely added to the feed of healthy animals to promote rapid weight gain. Slaughter’s bill banning the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ States Try to Weigh Safety With Dog Owners’ Rights ” (news article, July 23): Any law that deems a dog as dangerous or vicious based on appearance, breed or phenotype is unfair and discriminatory. Canine temperaments are widely varied, and behavior cannot be predicted by physical features.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. …because cooperative breeding facilitates defense against brood parasites.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Over the next few days, the Alpine Accentors ( Prunella collaris ) will arrive on their high-Alpine breeding grounds – it is time to start singing, despite that the treeless Alpine landscape is still under metres of snow. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes. all Alpine Accetor photos digiscoped (c) Dale Forbes.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2011

Kentish Plover / Credit: Jane Stylianou It’s just the thing that I thought birders from outside of Cyprus would want to hear that I had to share it in full: BirdLife Cyprus conducts yearly waterbird breeding counts. Smaller numbers were recorded at other wetlands.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Buying dairy products supports them. That doesn't mean that 99% of dairy products are from family farms , as the average number of cows on each family farm is just over 100. Families, so the commercials go, don't engage in untoward aspects of animal husbandry that might hurt the cows. The cows' tails swing in the breeze.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2012

The first two to three ingredients listed should be meat, and not grains or vegetable by-products. If you feed a homemade diet, aim for a diet that is at least 80% animal protein. Puppy, senior, and large breed dog foods all offer benefits, but not all special formulations are created equally.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Even if you plan to breed your dog, spaying her when you are done breeding can completely eliminate her risk of this infection and increase her life expectancy. About the Author: Jane is an animal lover, and doesn’t turn away any animal that needs help. She has owned and fostered many pets who needed a loving home.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 6, 2009

The Pet Loo is a lightweight box that fits on a balcony or anywhere inside an apartment, so that the animal can relieve itself when its owner can’t be there. Skovron, whose background is in animal-assisted therapy for seniors, also saw a need to make dog ownership accessible for the elderly and those in cold climates. Fox News.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Day upon day can be spent in this vast and productive wilderness of epic proportions without ever feeling that the limits have been reached! Elephants are nowhere more abundant and one can often find oneself in the midst of a peaceful, grazing family herd, a special experience indeed to be so close to such huge animals.

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