10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

One of the most impressive birds in North America is the Golden Eagle. It is found as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, taking its place as one of Mexico’s official symbols. ” The bird is massive. Though their populations appear stable, their future health is not without risk.

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Albania Mexico Eagles Kazakhstan 101

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ) is probably one of the most misunderstood birds in North America. link] Can you imagine how many rotting animals we would have on the roadsides if we didn’t have vultures cleaning them up for us? I think Turkey Vultures deserve a lot more respect from we humans and especially birders.

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Turkey North America Killing Eagles 152

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.) To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? It’s not a field guide, as such.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

But they don’t live in North America. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. Here’s a peek at what our avifauna, here in North America, may be in for… Yes, I am aware this isn’t a bird…but hear me out. Climate Change. Whats in it for birds?

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. It’s worthy of admiration , if not respect, for this most disrespected of birds. millions years ago.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 175

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Now, in 21st century America, we’re entertaining new considerations, in keeping with our modern understanding of wild animals and conservation. Serious examination of the national funding paradigm and how it contributes to the conservation choices made on both federal and state levels.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A study released by the associations that accredit zoos across North America said that the occurrence of deaths was not a fluke. The study reported that the zoo was not properly able to handle the marine animals.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 202

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 5, 2011

Dogs seem like pretty hardy animals for the most part, perfectly capable of eating all sorts of foods. Avocados contain persin, which in large amounts can be toxic to dogs and other domestic animals. Similar to humans, dogs that eat sugary foods can develop obesity, tooth decay, and diabetes. Certain Fruits and Vegetables.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

The next quote is quite the bummer, and it says more about humans than vultures, but I couldn’t resist bringing a bit of existentialism into a post about vultures. Part of me is wondering what great dead animal this flock was settled upon a few minutes ago. That’s just not right. How cool is that?

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Turkey Apes Wolves North America 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The start was there to try and break the warm fuzzies people have about wildlife biologists, people generally well regarded for doing badly paid work trying to help photogenic animals in the wild. How it is being affected by human intrusions? The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?”

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

The largest flying land birds in North America, they appear like folded umbrellas at first, their wing feathers draped blanket-like, enveloping bodies that naturally weigh about 20 pounds at maturity. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. Their size doesn’t escape you.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2012

Introduced from North America, it is bigger and more adaptable than the native Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris and has displaced the latter from much of its former range. Albinism is a congenital condition whereby the animal is unable to produce pigmentation from its melanocytes (colour cells). Are they restricted to Kent UK?

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Squirrels North Carolina Missouri North America 216

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Bringing animals that would require feed and water at that early stage would have been unwise. Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 198

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings. By the way, one answers questions and solves problems.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But my impression is that there is less support for changing the name of every bird with an honorific name, if only because not all namesakes are terrible, and it seems like a lot of disruption to change so many names (about 140 in North America). Some see political correctness run amuck.

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Birds Laws 2020 Jordan 228

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent. While DDT is still used some places in the world, it has largely disappeared from use in North America.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us (Richard O. I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America.

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 102

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. Fuller is also a photographer, but his web page notes that he seldom takes photographs of birds or animals.).

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. They mate out in the open, for all the world to see, and of course they don’t care one way or the other if a human is watching through binoculars. But that makes her sound awfully stuffy.

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West Virginia Birds Chickens Maryland 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area. There are eleven types of plant habitats, including Bog, Mire, and four kinds of grasslands.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Dawn Fine Mar 16th, 2011 at 9:58 am Kim~Please forgive me Jochen Mar 16th, 2011 at 11:33 am @Dale: It’s “Jochen the guy who is desperate for a trip to North America&#.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. to a high of 11%. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

In somewhat dubious English, the abstract of one paper on this species by Chinese authors states that “ Pycnonotus sinens has got used to the city life and become a kind of city bird that are closely associated with human” (of course, my Chinese – spoken only anyway – is far worse than this English).

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. Some people think humans are superior to all other life forms.

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