10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2021

Would Barred Owls chuckle and admit that, for the record, “No, we really aren’t saying ‘Who cooks for you’?” Some might even protest at being kept separate, raising their voices as they eye the main conference birds with hungry intent. The Rufous-naped Wren is a very animated, common species in Costa Rica.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

If it doesn’t find enough to eat, it might become too tired to watch for predators and be snatched up by a domestic cat or any number of animals that are always watching, eternally waiting for an easy lunch. Bay-breasted Warblers have to be careful. Looking closer, I could see a white belly with dark spots and some russet plumage.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. 10000birds.com/the-search-for-the-rarest-owl-of-india.htm. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. And it becomes a motionless observer once more.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 172

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

Occasionally we go so quickly that we may be posing a danger for jay-walking animals… …and then, for no obvious reason, we suddenly stop! A longish drive – long enough to forget that he has actually promised us two owls. Manoj really knows his owls. Two owls and a nightjar! Mottled Wood Owl Strix ocellata.

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Lions India Mammals Boars 218

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Their justification was that the animals don’t necessarily approach the very few reinforced areas and must be tracked down and baited so further studies can be made, despite the fact that this disrupted the animals’ natural cycles (thus rendering observations invalid) and caused irreversible damage to the delicate environment.

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Largely because of the same reason this past summer was a such a good year for Snowy Owls , resulting in a huge irruption of them into the south, we are seeing huge numbers of Arctic Hares this spring. Some times the boxing erupts in conflict while the animals are feeding.

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 201

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night. No coyotes in sight right now, the Great Horned Owls are off in the cottonwoods closer to the river. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

Over the last two weeks, we raised our faces and sniffed. I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? For us here in the valley, though, at least it cleared the air.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Most of the collective nouns would have been used to describe animals that were hunted for sport which is disturbing when one considers a Parliament of Owls for example, a Herd of Wrens or a Stand of Flamingos. Looking over some of the lists raises a few questions. I wonder if a Sussuration has been taken yet.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. The structures will be small so we don’t disturb the trees or our resident wildlife (raccoons, deer, owls, cottontail rabbits, etc.) Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle.

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Rabbits Rescue Rabbit Rescue Ferrets 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 269

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I’m currently in a very intense on phase with this millennia-old craft, churning out sweaters and mini-mitten ornaments, and an abstract-looking owl. My grandmother taught me to knit when I turned nine, and since then I have knit on and off throughout my teens and twenties.

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Birds Puffins Alaska Canada 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

First published in November of 1843 the tale of a baby swan, or cygnet, being raised among ducks strikes a chord with many people, but in Denmark the works of Hans Christian Andersen bring feelings of national pride. The Numbat is the animal emblem. It is no wonder that the ugly duckling grew up to be the national bird of Denmark.

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Denmark 2011 Honduras Deer 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. To that end, the principals have created a terrific site called Conserving the Future: Refuges and the Next Generation to elicit votes and comments. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds. We didn’t see the hawk but did get lucky with a Crested Owl.

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Costa Rica San Jose Sharks Monkeys 238

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

In a press statement released by the species, it says “We are proud to raise our own chicks and condemn the practice of some of our relatives to dupe other birds into becoming foster parents” During the lockdown here in my Shanghai apartment complex, the TV advertisements in the elevators were not changed for almost 3 months.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Sadly, this population too went into a steep decline until only 57 animals were left in Germany in 1997, raising fears about their imminent extinction in the country. At 21 kilograms, the male Great Bustard is amongst the heaviest animals able to fly, together with Kori Bustard, an African species.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 101

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? Barn Owl on a dry tree trunk and a… traffic jam! Sniffing us.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

And fun and food are, I’d submit, not enough reason to fell a bird in which only one in three pairs manages to raise a single chick each season; a bird that has captured the imagination and hearts of tens of thousands of people, whose sonorous purr floats down from on high like the voice of a pterosaur. Thank you for your efforts.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

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 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good! The total surviving population is estimated to be 3000 to 5500 animals, out of which only six populations reach the 100 individuals threshold, enough to prevent inbreeding.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

We miss them all: the parrots, the pigeons, the moas and titan-hawks and stilt-owls and myriads of endlessly exotic avifauna we will never ever know again as they were when they graced this Earth. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean.

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Marsupials Costa Rica Elephants Cuba 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. I am inclined to believe so.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

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. What does a Flammulated Owl do all night?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

to have and raise children. Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Journal of Ornithology 137 (1): 35-51 N. Davies et al.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 203

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.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Wikipedia points out that the Black-winged Kite has some similarities with owls, in particular, the “owl-like forward-facing eyes with red irises” On Chongming Island, some of them seem to be relatively unafraid of people, at least by the standards of raptors. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here. It was completely unharmed as the hunter had climbed a tree to catch it, so we agreed to purchase the poor animal and after taking a few images and ensuring the hunter was gone, we released it and with mixed emotions watched as it climbed high into a massive tree.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see.

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