10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

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. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” He lay in a ditch with a spinal injury, unable to move.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 27, 2009

Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species is an interesting read about the world’s first wildlife forensics lab. The book looks at three criminal cases involving wildlife. We got a chance to review an amazing book recently!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D. This process is known as distraction osteogenesis.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) generally creates a formal plan to guide recovery efforts. Two environmental groups — Friends of Animals and Predator Defense — disagreed and filed suit against FWS, arguing that the plan to remove the Barred Owls violated the MBTA and other environmental laws. Fish & Wildlife Serv.,

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. Birds white dove release wildlife rehabilitators' Why do this?”.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Tell me, what happens if we rip away hunting when hunting protects more wildlife land in Africa than national parks? Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. This is of course an anathema for many in the animal rights camp.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So we made our way to the grounds of the Uganda Wildlife Education Center , a former zoo that now rehabilitates injured animals. Of course, finding a first country record on the first morning of the African Birding Expo was extremely fortuitous. Uganda’s first Pectoral Sandpiper.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today’s post is written by Monte Merrick, wildlife rehabilitator and co-director of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x in Arcata, CA. I happened to work at that facility, for International Bird Rescue at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center , part of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Hi, I live in a suburban area that is a good chunk woods and wildlife, however we have a lot of construction for new developments happening. I have also now noticed over the course of the past 3 weeks, at least 10 dead birds on the side of the road where the trenches are.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep going, in spite of everything.”. “A I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If I were to describe my long time wildlife nemesis, my ultimate dip of dips, I would reach for a nemesis cat, not a nemesis bird. I had, after all, been to 13 countries that were home to leopards, over the course of 14 years, of which in all but one I had been in habitat suitable for this most adaptable of big cats. What an animal!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2012

We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Animal Control was on the way.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 So keep that in mind. Or may be a tenth of that.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Of course, will be there sufficient resources expended to catch the killers? Tags: wildlife crime seattle marine animals sea lions. The deaths are a violation of the Marine Mammals Act and, because it’s a protected species, the shooting death of a Steller sea lion also violates the federal Endangered Species Act.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. Back to birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. I think a lot of people know that climate change is not a positive thing, but do they know whats in it for wildlife? So what does climate change mean for birds? Well…it means everything.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I greatly enjoyed reading these articles on diverse topics such as suet, nyjer seed, the development of humming-bird feeders, rarities at feeders, wild bird feeding in Latin America and the Caribbean, and, importantly, “funding for birds and wildlife.” Fish and Wildlife Service. Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

It concerns the nature of wildlife in Australia, and is perhaps the most remarked about aspect of Australia’s wildlife, at least the impression you’d get if you’ve ever watched ten minutes of Animal Planet. The very dangerous nature of the wildlife. Stingers, or box jellyfish, are serious business.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience." Of course they would react differently. How would people react?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s entirely possible that I’ve just given some adventurous craft brewer a really bad idea, though it certainly wouldn’t be the first or even most questionable use of animal ingredients in brewing. But crows seem willing to eat everything, and I’ll drink just about anything, so who am to judge?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! White Wagtail in Helsinki.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) They’re a big impact on wildlife. We worry about wildlife, disease and nuisance animals.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Today I’m exploring a couple questions that have been bouncing in my head for a while…I’d love to hear your thoughts…I’m not calling into question animal rights, just the focus of the movement. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. This makes perfect sense.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

For a land that can lay claim to an abundance of such wonderful native wildlife, it’s peculiar that the national symbolism of Scotland is so populated by mythological creatures. Pair of Golden Eagles (1899) by Scottish painter Archibald Thornburn (1860-1935).

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2009

Disneynature’s first film, Earth , which comes out on Earth Day (April 22,2009), follows three animal families across the globe. My question is, what was your favorite animal to film? Then, of course, I’m a sucker for things that make me laugh, so I loved the jumping mandarin ducks, the mandarin ducks flinching and flying.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play? The owl was lying there injured, of course it’s not going to fly, especially judging by how hard you kicked it. 3 Responses to “Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field?&#

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

.” The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don’t believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. One strafed it and caused it to flush and the second grabbed it in the air and then dropped the now dead Baird’s Sandpiper which the first falcon swooped back for and grabbed just before it hit the ground.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

He was the first director of that museum, edited that journal, invented the niche concept, and, of course, came up with the Grinnell system. We might expect that as the earth warms, biomes or regionally defined habitats will move north, and with them, their plants and animals. And, he literally wrote the book(s) on California birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

Digiscoping has prompted me take up photography and it has reignited a more conscious interest and appreciation for wildlife in me, in particular towards birds. But of course I also like taking images of other animals when the opportunity presents it self. What is your personal favourite digiscoping setup?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

My daughter was taking an evolutionary biology course at the University of Chicago and was given an assignment involving surveying Monk Parakeet nests in Hyde Park. Of course, the only thing my daughter knew was that she had to go out in the cold and look at birds. After he died in 1987, the U.S. and Sam Logue. Urban Ecosystems , Sept.

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Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course. Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. This is Girlie Girl.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Faithful 10,000 Birds readers will remember Suzie as our wildlife rehabilitation beat writer. Trying to stop her is her furious husband and the authorities, and helping her is a smitten tech guy and an underground railroad of fellow wildlife rescuers. It’s a funny, suspenseful road trip with lots of wildlife. And birders!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

She places the cahow’s tale within the larger story of how Bermuda’s endemic plants and wildlife, especially the Bermuda Cedar, were exploited and replaced with invasives that caused more destruction. A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses.

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