10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

If your CBC experience is anything like mine here in eastern New York, you’ll be counting an awful lot of crows. And I think it’s safe to say the other two North American crow species aren’t showing up in New York any time soon.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. 26, 2011 To the Editor: Seamus McGraw mounts all the standard defenses: I am feeding my family; there are too many deer; I kill as mercifully as possible. Nothing noble there.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. What about being torn from your family?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein is a writer, teacher, organizer, and birdwatcher who lives in upstate New York. And we poor birders have to use those names because otherwise no one will know what bird we are checking off our list and bragging about having spotted to fellow birders, bored families, and unimpressed romantic interests.

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Birds North America Cooking Campaign 260

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2013

Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

The “ Explores” are only part of the book, and there is much else of value in it, even for the reader who cannot quit his job, sell all his worldly possessions, leave his home and family, and take to the byroads armed only with a parabolic microphone. Boston, New York. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 261

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Lest you think that I am overstating the likelihood of the raccoon being rabid please take into consideration that signs like the one below hang near every entrance to the park and rabid raccoons have been found not only in Central Park but all over New York City of late.

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Raccoons New York City New York Squirrels 173

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 17, 2008

9) does little to advance the debate on farm animal housing. Decisions on how best to house farm animals should be left to the family farmers, like me, who care for their animals every day. The animal housing debate will continue among those most knowledgeable about it. Editorial rhetoric won’t help.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2017

Some birds are so familiar, even non-birders can’t help but know what they are, or at least what family they belong to. Go birding for the first time in the Dominican Republic and you might wonder if a Broad-billed Tody is a flycatcher, a really lazy hummingbird, or if some super cute stuffed animal came to life.

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Costa Rica Dominican Republic Kansas Guinea 117

Animal Ethics

APRIL 8, 2008

Dogs form attachments to their families and thrive on consistency. Dog lovers who are unable to make a lifelong commitment to a pet can volunteer with animal shelters and rescue groups, and provide foster care in their home for an animal awaiting permanent adoption.

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New York Times Humane Society Of The United States New York The Humane Society 40

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

New York City; Nashville, Tenn.; In the coming months, Mars Petcare will sponsor family-focused healthy living fairs for pets and people at the following locations: New York City – The Prospect Park YMCA, October 16. Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. Chicago; and Portland, Ore.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 4, 2008

Here is a New York Times story about traditional farming, which is a darn sight better for animals than factory farming.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Do you agree with the New York Times ' William C. Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Rhoden in " The Case for a Second Chance for Michael Vick? "

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Foie Gras Michael Vick New York Times Seals 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. Kristof frustrates me.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment. Changing the family diet because of environmental concerns can be particularly loaded, Ms.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. The Numbat is the animal emblem. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 172

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 20, 2012

Before the life-changing moment, Scarlett lived in an old Brooklyn garage in New York, taking care of five kittens not older than four weeks. The animal had badly burnt hair and legs, swollen eyes and ears damaged. The cat was sent to the intensive care immediately and placed in an oxygen chamber.

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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? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Video and desultory apology here. Wicked, right?

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 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. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found in the park that sunny day.

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Sweden Denmark Geese Birds 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

I briefly entertained the idea that I had found a rare species never before seen in New York but quickly came to my senses and realized that I was dealing with a leucistic individual. Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&# RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 158

Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. I wonder how much they learn about the animals other cultures eat. (In But I bet anything doesn't go.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was. Wicked, right?

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 156

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

As Mattison says, “Frogs are unlikely to be mistaken for any other type of animal.” For example, I was going to add “no tail” to the list of features above, what all frogs share, when I remembered that there are indeed a small family of Tailed frogs, four species in New Zealand and two in North America (though, the tails are quite tiny).

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 197

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Growing up, we always had animals. Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. We both loved them, but it was Peter who seemed to communicate with the animals on a deeper level than anyone else we knew. I ask, worried about Peter getting in trouble just as much as the animals. “I

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Dogs Puppies Iraq Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Duck Stamp) for wildlife observers (81 votes, 12 comments) Create a photography permit allowing regulated off-trail access to refuges (80 votes, 15 comments) Christmas Bird Count for Kids – A half day free family event with partners @ all USFG visitor centers (46 votes, 5 comments) Establish partnership(s) with national birding conservation orgs.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Ballantine and Hyman explore how birds communicate and summarize studies on how that communication functions in diverse bird families all over the world. She writes, “Broadly, I am interested in the evolutionary mechanisms underlying phenotypic variation and population divergence in animals, primarily birds.”

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I had no idea what I was getting into.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 174

Animal Person

MARCH 28, 2009

A lot of Puerto Ricans coming up to New York to get a free handout. b. 1947 487 There were.subsidies on animal feedingstuffs, welfare foods, milk in schools. 5/1 The scandal of the ‘welfare hotels’ [in New York] where the city places homeless families has been simmering for many weeks. welfare roll N.

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Project Treadstone Welfare Trap Neuter Return Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 159

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Articles on the Bermuda petrel have appeared in scientific journals and popular birding magazines, and Wingate has been the subject of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and has received the Linnaean Society’s of New York prestigious Eisenmann medal. She uses both sources well.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

A range of animals come to satisfy their need for salt or the soothing effects of the clay along the river banks of the region. Please go to [link] Tags: macaws , parrots , peru , tambopata • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Killing Hunting Hunters New York 260

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

The species are taxonomically divided into two families: Tytonidae, Barn-Owls, and Strigidae, Owls, encompassed in one order, Strigiformes. When you look at Clements latest taxonomic spreadsheet, you get a sense of the depth of their relationships to each other and the world. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 237

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

It’s been nearly three weeks since the family and I left Breckenridge but I’m still thinking about all the birds that we enjoyed from my aunt and uncle’s backyard deck at 10,500 feet above sea level. We spent three days in Breckenridge and each morning I was the first in the family to awaken.

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