10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. Beljarica lies less than 2 km/1.2

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. If all her other toes eventually function perfectly, she could still hunt without that one non-essential talon.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 192

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

It is not the fault of Canada Geese that they have become a trash bird. Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. And, even worse than being hated, they often suffer being called Canadian Geese , which is just not fair to these non-Tim Horton’s-coffee-drinking creatures.)

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Geese Canada New York City Birds 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2011

Must we wait until every released California Condor is dead before fully banning lead ammunition for hunting? Three more are dead and three more have been taken into captivity, treated and released after suffering lead poisoning.

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California Condor Suffering California Hunting 166

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. I’m sorry.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I travel for birding. I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I would share with you some essentials I think any birder should plan to have in their suitcase–no matter where they are visiting. I’ve never regretted any of these items being in my suitcase.

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Birds North Dakota Florida Soreing 259

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Just a quick post today to appreciate one of New Zealand’s most attractive birds, the Paradise Shelduck. They are endemic to New Zealand, but unlike many endemic species that have not suffered at the hands of humans, in fact they have expanded their range as forests have been opened up for pasture. The female.

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New Zealand Sanctuary Suffering Ducks 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 235

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

There are birds more prized by North American birders than the Great Gray Owl , but not many*. As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County. We went beyond. The owl wasn’t there.

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Owls Minnesota Montana 2014 221

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.” And some members of Congress want to cut funding dramatically 2.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 195

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

In a co-ordinated protest, members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) destroyed hundreds of traps and set free the birds inside. The hunting and selling of ortolans, which have suffered a Europe-wide decline of 40-50% in the last 40 years, has been illegal in France since 1999. From the Guardian.

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France Endangered Species Protest Protesting 100

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food. Most birds will follow a set group of behaviours, building a nest a certain way, courting a certain way, eating a certain set of food.

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Albatross Hawaii Seals Parrots 177

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

One of the most majestic macaws is the Hyacinth Macaw ( Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus ), a brilliant blue South American bird that weighs in as the largest flying parrot in the world. The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values. These macaws nest in existing holes in trees.

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Protection Brazil Parrots Paraguay 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Sitting on a beach under a coconut tree (but not under the very crown, I know that), I am contemplating birding and the meaning of life… Salty breeze comes from the Caribbean, way saltier than any Mediterranean sea breeze. But why would someone look for that, an easy and common one among the 920+ bird species of Costa Rica?

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 134

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

under the 1969 Endangered Species Conservation Act and later transferred to the 1973 Endangered Species Act; then protected with other birds of prey under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act through agreement with Mexico, but not Canada, in 1972 1. BBC Nature has a really cool video of the Peregrine hunting a pigeon in a stoop.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 133

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2012

On and off for the last several months I’ve been working on a personal project to enter a massive amount of old bird records from the state of North Carolina into eBird. Young and hungry for birds. But then, they were like me (or, at least the me of the not too distant past).

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North Carolina Groups Suffering Hunting 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Never ones to let facts stand in the way of a good, old-fashioned, witch-hunt, the hordes of cat crazies heeded the call of their overlords and not only sent emails but essentially took over the National Audubon Society’s Facebook page. Pretty standard. And isn’t that what the National Audubon Society is supposed to be all about?

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. I am sharing it again here, at the request of Corey Finger, who takes some sort of sick pleasure in seeing other birders squirm and suffer under the weight of their obsession with life birds.

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Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 170

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

You know there is probably some evil backstory if Wikipedia talks of a “complex” legacy of Raffles – further detailing that “he was ultimately an imperialist benefiting at the expense of the indigenous peoples” So, I guess this is another bird name that should be changed eventually.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 180

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Whereas it once used to be argued, as by Newman , that the least human good compensates for any possible amount of animal suffering, the current doctrine is that it requires a considerable good to compensate for such suffering. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.

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Animal Cruelty 2004 Cruelty Vivisection 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

2, 2009 To the Editor: While Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article demonstrates our folly in oversimplifying solutions to many of our challenges and offers many viable solutions to sustaining our lifestyles in generations to come, she leaves out one very green practice: hunting and fishing. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., Indeed, in Ms.

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New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I dipped a bird recently – possibly a lifer. First I noticed a red cap – a male, then striped flanks and pale-red undertail, but couldn’t see its wing because some part of the bird remained hidden by a branch at any given time. It’s the boar hunting season. We started from the village at, perhaps 50 m a.s.l. What to say?

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Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 250

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The global population is now estimated at 15,000 birds and, even on islands where it is relatively common, its distribution remains severely fragmented. So he began to put out extra feed for the birds.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Sometimes, when I’m writing trip reports about far off places (relative to most of my readers) I wonder what exactly people make of some of the birds I mention seeing. Is a Coua a bird or a city in Brazil? Is a saw-wing a bird or an engine part? Is a logrunner a bird or a black market timber trader? What a treat!

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Australia Fiji Hunters Family 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

The person who named this bird apparently cleverly chose the name Yellow-rumped Flycatcher to distinguish the bird from the Narcissus Flycatcher, which is also yellow-rumped. In Chinese, this bird is called White-browed Flycatcher, which introduces some (possibly undesirable) logic into the world of bird names.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Welcome to Birding Tongbiguan, part 1. The authors of the paper sound a bit helpless, stating that “At the time of discovery, both birds [two bee-eaters] were still alive, but it was not possible to free them from the net because the bees began to attack the ringer.” Reluctantly back to birds.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 137