10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

You (or your child/friend/etc) have just found a seemingly parentless baby bird. Here with the answer(s) is Maureen Eiger, a bird rehabilitator in Roanoke, VA: . Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. Putting a baby bird back in its nest is not always the right thing to do.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

But the fact is nature has little to do with most problems facing native birds. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” To that person, the bird in trouble is real and not an anonymous blob of feathers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Not so nifty for birds, though. Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky. An “invisible” building sounds infinitely more dangerous; let’s hope the architects have a plan to stave off bird fatalities.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

And Peter, who loves wildlife, has saved hundreds – if not thousands – of birds and small animals from being killed by two more feral cats. Instead of rounding them up, providing minimal veterinary care, and dumping them back on the streets, why not actually rescue them?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2013

The permit allows the Hopis a total of 40 birds that may be sacrificed for use in religious ceremonies. The Navajo also use eagle feathers as part of rituals, but don’t believe in killing the birds. The ruling is important because as recently as three years ago, several Hopi were prosecuted for illegally killing eagles.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

You see, everyone knows the bats, wolverines, spiders and cats get their turn as well known superheroes, but what about the birds? Well, rest assured there are plenty of those, so enjoy a countdown of the (utterly subjective) top ten superheroes inspired (in some small way) by birds! Heroes, mind, you won’t find the Penguin here.

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Critter News

JUNE 10, 2010

Here's an article exploring whether it's pointless to try to rescue oiled bird in the Gulf. This article states that most of the oiled birds probably won't even show up before they eventually die, so we'll never know how many have actually been killed. Tags: birds 2010 oil spill Gulf of Mexico.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

All her pets are rescues. So: Nina is beating herself up over the fact that her dog, who is a pet and thus not a part of nature, has killed a wild creature – and people try to make her feel better by telling her their cats do it all the time. If the bird has nestlings, they will all starve to death.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Flamingos and Hornbills and a Secretarybird and birds with names like Hamerkop and Thick-knee and Eremomela (which I know is a scientific term, but which, when pronounced correctly, reminds me of a Yiddish term of endearment my grandmother used). And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

The birds were observed crashing into the rocks high in the Andean mountains near a hydroelectric power plant. Other birds were seen crash landing. As Chilean officials and volunteers rescued 17 birds they noticed the birds were foaming from the beak. Birds Andean Andes condors poisoning'

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Ideally, we like to release birds where they came from (as long as it’s not a dangerous area), and with as little fanfare as possible. You open the door, and your fit, strong bird flaps once and plummets to the ground, overcome by the stress of the car ride. Bird people understand this. Regular civilians, maybe not so much.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2011

This spring I received a phone call from a friend of mine up here, whose growing interest in birds I’ve been nurturing. King Eider are good sized birds, and powerful fliers So some Ravens here hunt and kill at least some of their food. They were pecking at it while pinning it to the ground when it was rescued.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

She is a lifelong champion of all birds, and a hero and inspiration to me. We are off to rescue a Bald Eagle, kiddo!” But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. A State of WI Department of Natural Resources Warden rescued him and brought him to REGI. in Antigo, WI.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds. It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. I am terrified of spiders. What did I have to lose?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

If we can all agree on one thing, it’s that chickadees and tits are terrific birds. Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. It was still alive.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2012

I’m not a big fan of bird banding. When I see a band I imagine something slipping beneath it and trapping the bird, I’ve seen photos of birds with so many bands it looks like they’re wearing stockings, and then there’s the awful story of Violet , whose band eventually killed her. to find out her actual age.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

She’s not really a birder, but having been friends with me she knows that they are there, watches some ( Red-bellied Woodpeckers are her favorite) and will even drink shade-grown coffee because she knows it’s good for migratory birds. According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. There's no doubt across that scale of landscape and given the intensity of the fires, millions of animals would have been killed," he said.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2020

Most birders know what a nemesis bird is and, most of all, what that truly means. It happens to every birder and it may take a while but eventually, every person who strives to see different species of birds comes across that one warbler, that particular shorebird or bunting or crossbill that they really, honestly, should have seen.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals. We were told that Marco, one of the rescued chimpanzees, does a dance during thunderstorms during which he looks like he’s in a trance.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I was mortified.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

If human beings were confined, mutilated and killed, would we call it “humane” if the cages were a few inches bigger, the knife sharper, the death faster? Animals rescued from so-called humane farming establishments have been found in horrific condition. Push-ups, sit-ups, carrying 50-pound bags of bird seed—and I will be 71 in May.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

For example, I have a duty to keep my promise to meet a friend for dinner, but this duty can be overridden by a stronger duty, say, to rescue people who are involved in an accident. Suppose you are marooned on a desert island inhabited by edible birds. Presumably that a bird’s life is less valuable than one’s own.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

The number of individual birds and mammals alone that are affected by these factors are countless; and when you consider fish, reptiles and amphibians, it is hard to comprehend the magnitude of life that gets wiped out around the world (and certainly including the U.S.) There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Mauritius may sound familiar, it was also the home of one of our most famous extinct birds—the Dodo. Don’t these birds care about propagating their species?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As suggested before, it might be time to get somebody with at least a vague interest in birds involved in working on the online edition of the HBW. Of course, the White-cheeked Starling is even more common in Shanghai and can sometimes be seen in flocks of 20 or more birds. I am sure you are as excited about it as I am.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Peta called on authorities to add cruelty to animals to the arson charge laid against a 39-year-old man on Friday in connection with a bushfire in rural Victoria state that killed 21 people. Tags: wildlife crime natural disaster australia animal rescue wildlife PETA. This tragedy has shown the best and worst in people,' Mr Baker said.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2017

Yes, it was one of those rare birds that is foraging right in front of you, in this case in a bed of small purple flowers, too close to photograph. Then, for no discernible reason, the bird flew! Peering over the fence, next to the ‘don’t climb the rocks’ sign, I observed the bird bathing in a small stream of water and left him there.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

It’s clear that birds copulate, procreate, and promote their genes with alacrity. Do birds feel love? While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. Did Vanna love his cage partner?

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