10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2017

I took a brief, wobbly, video of the process. The Zapata Swamp, Ciénaga de Zapata , is of course known for the three birds that bear it’s name: the Zapata Rail, the Zapata Wren, and the Zapata Sparrow. The bird flies around our group, alights onto a bush and, just as I raise my camera, dives into the bush. Then back again.

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Cuba Birds 2015 Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. I didn’t.).

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2008

What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account. Is this plausible?

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Vegetarian Morals Vegetarian Cooking Slaughter 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. Energetic.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 249