10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

“ There is, perhaps, no better place in the world for birds than this country. Despite discovering dozens of bird species, he is however not remembered in any English names of birds. Wahlberg travelled even more extensively and amassed a huge bird collection. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. Do all hunters realize that? It flies on.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. The initial solution in New Zealand was to move species to islands where mammals hadn’t reached.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 266

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Where one to draw up one of those lists of “top ten x to see before to die”, a formula that is perhaps a morbid way to phrase quite a jolly question, and you were to examine which ten birds you had to see in life, I would imagine the question would divide people endlessly. Just ten birds out of ten thousand?

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New Zealand Parrots Sanctuary Family 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

Over 40 species of South African endemics can be found in the Cape – Cape Sugarbirds, Cape Rockjumpers, Orange-breasted Sunbirds to name but a few. But there is one Cape bird that stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to character – the African Penguin. But in the early 1980s something remarkable happened.

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Penguins South Africa Africa Sharks 221

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the rest of 10,000 Birds. I’m not just saying this to be an annoying gadfly on the backside of the birding and general wildlife community, although this is certainly a fringe benefit. With no permanent habitation inside its boundaries, human disturbance is low.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

And if a feral cat colony is near an endangered species, the colony should be eliminated. ” Then my sister weighed in who is as passionate for cats as I am for birds, “Nature is nature. Maybe we should go back to giving individual wild birds their own names. We see several different types of species.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Family 186

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. Why is this happening?

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 113