10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Kroodsma waited for years for the right opportunity to record its different songs, a “cascade of sweet and liquid notes,” one naturalist said, “like the spray of a waterfall and sunshine.”. Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.)

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 254

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

This longspur,” Driver writes, “is named after a man who fought for years to maintain the right to keep slaves, and also fought against multiple Native tribes.”. We here at 10,000 Birds have decided to right some wrongs and improve the birding world by renaming birds the way they should have been named from Linnaeus to the present. (Or,

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Birds North America Cooking Campaign 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

The largest hawk in North America weighs about four pounds, so leaving the ground carrying three – let alone twelve – would be aerodynamically (not to mention logically) impossible. One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place. No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet.

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Pets Barn Owls Kentucky Bald Eagle 240

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Well, one reason might be – this animal is not only endangered, but even rarer than the Tiger! It is too early to show.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P. Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. On the other hand, the extinction of the Spotted Owl is completely unacceptable.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 264

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. And when you think about it, that seems right. Here’s the kicker though. millions years ago.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 190

Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Animal rights advocates have singled out the crates, known as sow stalls, as inhumane, and several states have moved to ban or restrict their use not only in pork production, but also in the production of eggs and veal. There are alternatives we think are better for the welfare of sows.”.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2013

In this case, the signs were right. This is the second book I have read in their Animal series and the first, Cockroach , was deserving of equally high praise. Also a sign when I spot other books by the same author on the shelf in the office of a member of my thesis committee, and on my own Christmas wish list. This is a good book.

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Sparrows Feral Cats North America Feral 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

So here it is, the review of Tracks and Signs of the Animals and Birds of Britain and Europe by Lars-Henrik Olsen. This is like Sibley calling his bird guide “The Sibley guide to Birds of Massachusetts and North America” The latter sounds silly, right? So what is one to think of the former? Lars-Henrik Olsen.

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Europe Mammals Animal Birds 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Everyone loves baby birds; 10,000 Birds even had a Baby Bird Week once upon a time!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 270

Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. insert crying baby picture here.)

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Polar Bears Bears Hunting Pandas 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But about two-thirds of the people speaking supported the new measure, including Dan Niziolek, director of Minneapolis Animal Care and Control. No,” he said.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 219

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. American scientists, realizing belatedly how embarrassing it was to know so little about a species right in the heart of their own continent, rushed to study this remnant population. But the ferrets kept dying.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 192

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2015

Flammulated, speaking of adorable, means “with flame-shaped markings” but to me sounds like it might describe the mental state of Muppets – a combination of flummoxed and animated, or perhaps of flailing and animated, but anyway, definitely that thing that Kermit the Frog does. Ferruginous, meaning rust-colored.

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Blackbirds Owls Sparrows Ducks 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 234

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 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Mike and Corey (the guys that keep us all in line here at 10,000 Birds) are probably reading this and saying, “Yeah right” Well, it really doesn’t matter what my excuse is because what I’m about to share is freakin owlsome! Even if it is several weeks late and all the animal-love voyeurs have stopped visiting the site.

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Owls Florida United States North America 226

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 7, 2012

“ Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. In it we get to see some of the amazing places in the wild areas of North America, Central America and South America. Untamed Americas: Deserts. Untamed Americas: Forests.

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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 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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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

The Body Shop is causing some headaches for L'Oreal right now. Parent L'Oreal said the difficult economic climate hit Body Shop sales in Britain, Spain and North America. When she sold to L'Oreal, with its questionable history and animal testing, it was a real betrayal of the company's practices and principles (in my opinion.)

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Spain North America Tagged Animal Ethics 100

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. The relationship between this bird and other animals and plants?” Studying a wild animal is a multi-disciplinary exercise.

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Birds 165

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. The very excited response was that she had been banded as a fledgling in 1983, which made her, at 27 years and 9 months of age, the second oldest living wild Red-tailed hawk ever recovered in all of North America. to find out her actual age.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 248

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 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. Also ferrets are curious animals, explorers, willing to take risks; they’ve had to be. As lovely as the Sage Grouse were, our trip had another primary mission — to see the amazing, highly endangered black-footed ferret.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

That’s just not right. Part of me is wondering what great dead animal this flock was settled upon a few minutes ago. Yes, watching vultures eat is not exactly the prettiest thing you’ll see, but to be so mean to vultures by implying they are as ugly as a Marx brother?

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Turkey Apes Wolves North America 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. 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 215

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. Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Prum, Doubleday).

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 105

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. Boehrer, Bruce, Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.,

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 210

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Flying in excess of 200 mph in a stoop, the Peregrine Falcon is considered to be the world’s fastest animal. This one was right next to the road, a location where they can usually be spotted at this refuge. I have been fortunate to get a visit from this beautiful raptor in the photography blind at Delevan NWR.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Wicked, right? Tags: national wildlife refuge , north america , parks • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same. You’d starve.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

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&#. Wicked, right? Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al. Ecological causes and reproductive conflicts. I’d do anything !!

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

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.). What a horror! What a wrong!

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. to a high of 11%. Isn’t that neat?

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