10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

That, and 10 days back on the way was going to be a great to recharge the batteries after a long round-the-world trip. Here is a small group of the Pigeon Guillemots near their rocky Cliffside nesting area. Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered.

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Oregon Bald Eagle Owls Groups 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

The birds are now breeding in the area, but are quite happy to keep coming to the daily feeding station in groups of over 100 birds. The first bird in that grouping would be the White-crowned Helmut-shrike. For shear beauty and color, it would be hard to ever find a more amazing group of birds that we found in Costa Rica.

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

I dropped my meager box of baby supplies off and stopped to chat to the two volunteers who were already helping people who had stopped in looking for warm clothing, batteries, and a sympathetic ear. I have never seen Evening Grosbeaks in Queens. It was almost enough to make this avowed atheist believe in karma.

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Battery Birds Suffering New York City 103

Critter News

APRIL 10, 2009

The group's findings have now triggered an investigation by the state's Animal Welfare Program. Tags: battery hens animal cruelty eggs undercover investigation farm animal welfare. Here's a link to the investigative video. Be warned, it's hard to watch.

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Cage Free Eggs Egg Farm Animal Welfare 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What’s nice about using an app instead of a paper field guide is that you can search by name, banding code, or Latin name and you can also reorder the species taxonomically or alphabetically by first or last name or gather similar species together into family groups. by the Mitch Waite Group in order to do this review.

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New York Battery Hawaii United States 173

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2011

This celebrated group included other authors of poems that celebrate nature including luminaries like William Cullen Bryant and James Russell Lowell. “Beneath the bivouac’s starry lamps, We saw your march-worn children die; In shrouds of moss, in cypress swamps, We saw your dead uncoffined lie.

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Battery Birds Legislation Alaska 146

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The animal advocacy group Compassion Over Killing has created a new website to bring attention to the fact that Morningstar Farms continues to use "battery eggs" from caged birds in their products. Hey Keith, I wanted to drop you a line on this because I thought it would be up your alley. Here is the link.

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Animal Advocacy Advocacy Battery Compassion 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

“Free range” does not solve the problem of painful debeaking, enormously oversized flocks or the unnatural isolation of the birds from other sexes and age groups. Though chickens can live for 5 to 11 years, after two years, they are hauled away to slaughter just like battery-caged hens.

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New York Times New York Battery Cages Factory Farm 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Birds marked in the Naoli River Basin in Heilongjiang Province, China, wintered along the Jiangsu coastline in China, while Eurasian Spoonbills from two discrete summering areas (in Inner and western Mongolia) overwintered inland in the Yangtze River floodplain of China.”

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