10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

After some hours of recording in northern California, and then, painstaking analysis and listening, he determined the number to be 37, at which point he, palpably exultant, announces to the reader: “a decades-long quest fulfilled.”. He had long wondered, Kroodsma says, how many songs, exactly, the Canyon wren has in his repertoire.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

I doubt we have to worry about Herring Gulls , Ruby-throated Hummingbirds or California Towhees going extinct, though their abundance and distribution will surely shift in time. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. It’s that simple.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 222

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2012

When staying with Daisy’s family in Yorba Linda, California, I often wake up early in the morning and take the short walk up to the southern end of Carbon Canyon Regional Park to do some birding. But the experience I had this morning put my previous sightings in the shade. But there are more than birds in the Carbon Canyon.

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Coyotes California Mammals Sparrows 101

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There’s more than one song per warbler?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

The initial attractiveness of utilitarianism as a moral theory on which to rest the call for the better treatment of animals was noted in an earlier context. Because animals are sentient (i.e., Because animals are sentient (i.e., To secure the philosophical foundation for animal rights requires abandoning utilitarianism. (

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2014

I’ve tackled Texas, collected in California, fooled around in Florida. What an incredible experience. Because that’s what animals do in Alaska. I’ve been fortunate enough to see a lot of the Lower 48. I’ve even paid a few calls to Massachusetts in the dead of winter for finches and owls.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ), Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. A pair of Brown Boobies ( Sula leucogaster ) tends a chick on Middle Rock, Islas Coronado, Baja California © David J. Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. And, the birds are awesome.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. The Service also proposes expanding hunting and sport fishing on the following refuges: California.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. I assume this personal tie is what brings many people to a wildlife hospital for the first time: empathy and sorrow for the single animal in their care. I was mortified. See her website here.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 216

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Elizabeth Bradfield’s “Buried Birds” muses on seabirds as a way of understanding feelings of difference, giving one of the book’s finest quotes: “We resonate with certain animals, I believe, because they are physical embodiment of an answer we are seeking.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

Families, so the commercials go, don't engage in untoward aspects of animal husbandry that might hurt the cows. The cows are walking around green fields, similar to those in the criminally misleading California cows commercials. Families are just as capable of horrendous policies toward animals as anyone else.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Four lions, rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from a Bolivian circus when the country banned the use of animals in circuses have a new home, and a life of luxury at the ARK 2000 sanctuary in Calaveras County. As with every animal at PAWS, we are committed to providing life-time care.

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