10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A study has shown that they make false alarm calls when seeing other species such as meerkats with attractive food. Superb Starlings avoid this when using helpers, much like rich people presumably reducing the stress of raising kids by hiring a couple of nannies. Colonial history reflected in bird names.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Although paramos can’t boast of having a high species count, nevertheless they easily compensate for that with very singular and most interesting species. What’s more, they host quite a number of endemics, both animal and plant. The paramo was starting to reveal its curiosities. Suddenly I noticed new birds. Ah, what the heck!

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Colombia Birds Raised Ecuador 231

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). “Odd, me?”

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 235

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Thus, the earlier the species has died out, the fuzzier and grainier the photo.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

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 234

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. For one – and we’ll stick with this one issue for now – because sometimes the public decides to keep the animal they have found, just for a little while. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Its mood is not helped by the ambiguous review on eBird: “Although not actually pale, this brownish songbird is one of the plainer thrushes in its range” The Latin species name of the Dusky Thrush is eunomos (I guess that is Greek, but whatever) – meaning well-ordered.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 211

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. The Hair-crested Drongo is a bit more common here.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 278

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it raised its chicks? His answer surprised me.

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2013

This raises an interesting question: Did these early birds have four wings, or three tails?). When we look at living species (A and B) that we know shared a common ancestor resembling one of them (A), we can guess that the features seen in A evolved in steps more or less linearly to eventually resemble the corresponding features seen in B.

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Apes Humane Mammals Research 202

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection. The top two are individuals with normal song.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 261

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia watches him in half-amusement, then raises and gives a low, bull-like roar, provoking the lapwings to an excited screech, makes a few steps and lies down. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. The other two are motionless.

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Tigers India Killing 2012 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds. Over time, it’s these physiological changes that can disrupt animals’ breeding or rearing habits.

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Birds Protection Idaho Bears 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 251

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare."

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

Soon calls about injured birds poured in from animal hospitals, the police and fire departments, and various government agencies. Nadeem and Mohammed have received numerous honors, including a Special Award for Humane Enforcement at the India for Animals Conference this year in Jaipur.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 263

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2016

Animal control authorities had been on his trail for weeks. Local animal control, the police, and our rehabilitation center were all called, but he proved uncatchable. Death threats came rolling in from frightened parents, and the police were furious that animal control authorities couldn’t do their job.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Indiana Game 142

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. by Marc Bekoff.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. However, despite our best efforts to wipe them off the face of the earth, some of the more vulnerable species have managed to hang on. this species breeds. Here are some U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2012

Hands raise and wave. They don’t, because humans are so vastly superior to animals – even child molesters, serial killers, and terrorists. Sometimes it is a member of an endangered or threatened species. “Anyone ever broken a bone?” Hands shoot up. Here is an x-ray of a bird,” I say. It’s a really big bird. Any guesses?”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Rescue Emotional 260

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

None fly, most are curious and social, which probably contributes to our cultural perception of penguins as one step away from human. They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars. Some are cute, some are dignified (and royal!).

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. Fourth Whooping Crane This Winter Shot Animal Rights vs Conservation in Cyprus Tennessee Crane Hunt Tabled for 2 Years!

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 161

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The very first thing we notice about this large member of the Galliformes is that there is a wild version and a domestic version, and although the two are rather different, they are both given the same species name, Meleagris gallopavo. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 210

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 raised its chicks? How it is being affected by human intrusions? The unique behaviors this mysterious species might exhibit?

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2013

She then spent half a minute silently poised behind our vehicle and as I watched her in my side-view mirror I could see she was completely oblivious to human presence as she had something more important in mind. The Leopard was still a slight, young animal and this may have even been her first larger kill.

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Leopards Cats Namibia Killing 162

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 216

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Another animal dies at the Calgary Zoo and more questions are being raised about their practices. The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Finally, what of the audience? The hysteria of the crowd surely played a part in escalating an already frightening situation.

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. My first view of them was at a distance. Of course, there are those things to consider.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 218

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. See a video on how dogs think like us.

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Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 204

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Thus, the two types of animals have very different courtship patterns. Prior to insemination, things are different as well.

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