10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. If you suffer from this condition, 10,000 Birds is probably the last place on the Internet you should be visiting.

2015 107

2015 Denmark California Fowl 107

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Forget lions, tigers, and bears – if Internet listicles are to be believed, all of Oz is full of crocodiles, sharks, jellyfish, snakes, spiders – even magpies – that are dead set on killing, maiming, or injuring any humans they encounter. One of these killers even has the word “death” in its name, for crying out loud.

2019 216

2019 Australia Ducks Fowl 216

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. KBJ: Ditto.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

2017 151

2017 Bald Eagle United States Turkey 151