10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Fine and dandy.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2012
The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. Kill the gulls. Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. The solution? There has to be a better way to deal with this, no?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
David Tomlinson The recent announcement by the American Ornithological Society that it intends to replace names of all birds named after people has caused quite a stir here in the UK. I have a fascinating little reference book called Whose Bird? Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. We don’t need any more.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2015
I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 25 years. I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. I look at these birds, and am enraged by how cruel and callous human beings can be. Is it the fault of the cats?
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2013
She is a lifelong champion of all birds, and a hero and inspiration to me. In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. If there is an entrance wound, there is an exit wound.
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