10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. What birds need is their own SWAT team. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. You call the SWAT team.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. They get hit by cars, suffer from parasites, predated upon by coyotes, and die from disease. Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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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. The grocery manager at a local store was using them to catch the birds that got in the building. Here’s why.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

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. It is estimated that only a few thousand birds remain in the wild.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 175

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

Timothy Barksdale is a birder/biologist turned filmmaker , passionately pursuing birds with a television camera for the last 24 years. Tim’s involvement with birds began very early and has led him to his passion for conservation through television. “No His work is the foundation of the Macaulay Library video collection.

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

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. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 244

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction. I was able to visualize six of the bird houses that survived.

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Science 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Images of wildlife coated in toxic goo haunted me; particularly the birds. But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 157

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.

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Humane 2018 Laws Science 132

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

However: they are not wild birds, and have no idea how to survive outside captivity. If you are determined to release white doves at your ceremony, it is essential to make sure you can afford to hire people who will release strong, healthy birds who at least have a chance of returning home to their roost. This is an important question.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ethics Virginia Atlanta 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

Falconry Month at Birds and Booze: I’ve decided to dedicate this month of March 2019 to wines and beers related to the history of falconry – or hawking – for no other reason than that I’ve recently acquired several bottles adorned with mostly medieval European iconography relating to this “sport of kings”.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

The next morning was Sunday, October 8 th , and I was up before sunrise to bird the gardens of Fort Mason, leaving Katherine to sleep in for another hour or two before we got ready for a long day of city sightseeing. I cut short my birding that morning, headed back to our room to wake up Katherine, and told her she’d better call her sister.

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San Francisco 2020 California Blackbirds 228

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

” By the very next day they were calling on their mindless followers to email the National Audubon Society’s CEO, David Yarnold, and Chairman, B Holt Thrasher, to call for Williams’ dismissal because he ”just published a major newspaper editorial calling on the public to kill millions of cats by poisoning them with Tylenol.”

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

With its appropriately birding name and label, I thought this beer would make an ideal subject for my inaugural post here on the new 10,000 Birds “Birds and Booze” beat. Three of the four smugglers aboard the Black Duck were killed. Good birding and happy drinking! __.

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Ducks San Francisco New York Legislation 120

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

She is a lifelong champion of all birds, and a hero and inspiration to me. We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. in Antigo, WI. And you can!

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 236

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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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Never let your pet near concrete until it is completely dry in addition to spoil the clean look of your new project, pets who come in contact with even slightly moist concrete can suffer irritation or corrosion of soft tissues. Anxious pets may chew on electrical cords and suffer painful burns or even electrocution.

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Pets Dallas Mammals Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, the local subspecies of Bewick’s wren, a bird described in 1908 a “very common on all parts of the island,” was gone by the 1940’s, its habitat converted into goat flesh. And so, the U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

"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. Hundreds of burned, stressed and dehydrated animals — including kangaroos, koalas, lizards and birds — have already arrived at shelters across the scorched region.

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Koalas Kangaroos Animal Rescue 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. But the story wasn’t really one about conservation. Conservation is concerned about protecting populations, species, habitats, ecosystems.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. 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? After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. Laura Frisk Encinitas, Calif.,

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. And for what? But not shocked enough.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

In recent years another type of justification has been given: vegetarianism has been justified in terms of human suffering, rights, etc. Suppose you are marooned on a desert island inhabited by edible birds. You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

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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. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I surprised her and she dropped the bird before vaporizing again. They simply helped me with my bird. That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center.

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Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 211

10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2013

But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. The birds are in trouble and some of them are going to go extinct because of climate change. “The birds” as a whole will be “fine” but many individual species will not.

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Maryland Birds Penguins Wildlife 220

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. Good birding and happy drinking! Teal Lake Shiraz (2019). Three out of five feathers (Good).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds , Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail as one of the best birds in the world. wakawaka, the New Zealand Fantail is a delightful inhabitant of New Zealand, and one of my favourite local birds. Birds New Zealand endemic New Zealand endemics'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. Albatross chicks will no longer have to endure slowly getting eaten alive, unlike this poor bird.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 207

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 262