10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with the killing of 24 geese and ducks in two parks in Concord, California (the original 10,000 Birds post about this can be found here ). It is unclear why the numbers have been changed from the 28 birds reported in the original article.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway. of its hunts are successful.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. An excellent Audubon article states “What do birds do when wildfires break out? A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. ” The article goes on to mention that fires are not all bad. Here is what the area looks like now.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This article describes the devastation being inflicted on Montana's wildlife by serial poachers. I would have thought serial poaching and serial killing were essentially the same, with the difference being the species, but this article says there is a difference. It's also an insight into how serial poachers think.

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Critter News

JUNE 10, 2010

Here's an article exploring whether it's pointless to try to rescue oiled bird in the Gulf. This article states that most of the oiled birds probably won't even show up before they eventually die, so we'll never know how many have actually been killed.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2012

For the full article, go to The Globe and Mail here. The market for Canadian seal pelts has gone dry but the federal government will still allow sealers to kill 400,000 of the marine mammals when the annual hunt opens next Monday. This despite a dry market for seal products and a warming climate that is hurting the species?

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Seals Canada Mammals Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

According to a December 1970 article in the New York Times , there was a flock of 9 to 12 birds in Fort Tilden. Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. New York Times , Dec.

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Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2011

Full article at the BBC News. Canadian police are investigating the reported killing of 100 huskies which had been used to pull tourist sleds in the ski resort of Whistler. An animal rights group claims the dogs were killed inhumanely by an outdoor adventure company and thrown into a mass grave.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

This is an interesting article that reveals some stuff I didn't know about celebrities I like. She went back to red meat because she said the vegan diet almost killed her and was aging her hands. (I Disappointing, but, as the article asks, is it fair to hold celebrities to a higher standard? Angelina Jolie used to be a vegan.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens. In Wales people who slept in late – and female servants, who probably never slept in late in their lives – used to be beaten with holly branches for luck, although modern assault laws have largely ended the practice. And tied them to the top of sticks.

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2010

According to this article, "at least 25 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mississippi beaches over the past few days, according to multiple media reports. So far, there is no evidence that the oil spill killed the turtles, but tests are ongoing." The web page also has a video.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern Bluebirds and Purple Martins and with extensive writings on how to keep starlings at bay and even recommendations on how to legally trap and kill them should they drive away North American birds. According to an article from the BBC, “Numbers across the U.K.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry. And they are always a pleasure to see.

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Critter News

JUNE 15, 2009

I read an article last week about a series of cat killings and mutilations (20 total) in south Florida. Just awful. Now they've arrested an 18-year-old suspect named Tyler Hayes Weinman. He's charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2015

However, the ducks’ behavior killed the festive mood for some and left others with a glimmer of hope. Even main-stream media thought this story was worth running an article on the reappearance of ducks “thought to be extinct in the region”.…a A foto and associated mini report were posted on Facebook. a somewhat inaccurate statement.

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

The Canadian government has authorized the killing of 280,000 harp seals. From the article, animal activist group Equanimal is working on it from the European end. I won't even bother asking the Canadians to stop this barbaric practice. The only way it will end is if the market for this product in Europe dries up.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

The problem is that people are abandoning and neglecting horses, and to address that problem--to address the problem that people abandon horses--we'll kill the horses? This is about finding "affordable options for unwanted horses," the article says. Do we recommend killing those children?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. You can read all about the results in the article. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. What an utterly grotesque project.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Unlike Sean the martial artist, who is still alive, our Strickland is already dead – when he went to examine the geological strata visible on a railway near Retford in the UK, he stepped out of the way of a goods train on a double track and was hit and killed by an express coming in the opposite direction.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Angus sent me a link to " Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly " wherein Zosia Bielski reports that "hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.". The final paragraph of the article is perhaps the most cringe-worthy.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune. Mexico City, one of the world’s largest cities, has an estimated 3 million street dogs that end up being killed in shelters or the victims of human cruelty. Late on this story.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

The article documents a number of recent abuses nationwide, as well as the difficulties reformers have faced in trying to stop abuse at shelters. Nathan Winograd is an advocate for no-kill shelters (and is the author of several books on the subject). You can read about his background here.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. It involves not killing them. Not eating them.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Have op-ed article writers Peter Singer and Karen Dawn not seen the beautiful natural habitat at the L.A. This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A Spanish version of the following article appeared in the 9/4/11 edition of the Honduran publication, La Tribuna. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. The illegal bird trade kills thousands of birds each year just in the manner they are smuggled.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

I responded to a post on animalblog that cited a recent article in the journal "Proceedings" of the National Academy of Sciences. Many people feel very uncomfortable with animal testing, even scientists I think, which is why they often get so emotional and defensive about their research.

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Animal Person

MAY 2, 2009

From and article by: Ms T Baker Co-ordinator, www.greytexploitations.com (which has that fabulous Racism=Speciesism=Sexism graphic on its front page) Dougie is the third greyhound in as many months – which we know of – to have been subjected to this kind of attack but sadly, he was the only one to survive.

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Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval." Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2018

in the USA, a 2013 article states , the number reaches 3.7 There are no shocking photographs in this post, so please read on. In the UK, so figures indicate , 10 million domestic cats account for 275 million prey items, of which 55 million are birds. billion bird deaths.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

As for the deconstructing the article, I'm afraid there aren't any surprises: "Dolphins have been declared the world's second most intelligent creatures" are the first ten words of the article. There are currently 112 comments on this article. What do you think?

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