article thumbnail

Birding Sweden on the Fly

10,000 Birds

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Sweden was one of the most memorable places on this trip, and ending our stay here with these geese sent us off on a high note. Birding Trips Europe Sweden' How could Norway top this?

Sweden 163
article thumbnail

100,000 Salmon Released in Sweden

Critter News

From Biteback: On the night of 21 November more than 100,000 salmon were liberated from two fish farms in northen Sweden. Both by saving individual animals and also by economic sabotage we make it harder and less profitable to continue to torture and kill animals. For the animals! DBF (Swedish Animal Liberation Front)"

Sweden 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

Critter News

They are members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC). The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Tags: europe activism huntingdon animal rights. From Reuters.

article thumbnail

Quoth the Raven: Who you callin’ bird-brained?

10,000 Birds

A team of researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Germany collaborated to study intelligence in Ravens, Jackdaws , and New Caledonian Crows. Compared with the results of a large-scale 2014 study in animals, the birds performed admirably well at devising ways to retrieve a treat from a transparent tube.

Sweden 100
article thumbnail

The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Diffusion to other european countries subsequently was very rapid. 78(1):61–78.

Turkey 197
article thumbnail

A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they can? 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J., MOURITSEN, H., BAUCHINGER, U., & BAIRLEIN, F.

Research 186