10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Sadly, the award must be posthumous, as birders at the pond later on Saturday watched the one-eyed wonder get killed by an opportunistic Peregrine Falcon. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2016 Jamaica Birds Falcons 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

But no one who has ever cared for another creature – be it bird, animal, or human – can comprehend, much less cope with, this kind of brutal, pointless killing. What about the people around the world who are mesmerized by nesting birds, thanks to blogs and nest cams? People do not work with wildlife for fame and fortune.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2012

How cool is it that you will be birding in an area with a reptile that could drag you under and kill you? Neither Mike nor I can go this year so Nathan Swick will be representing 10,000 Birds at the festival and blogging away during the whole thing. Need I say more? Purple Gallinule at Circle B Bar Reserve 2. American Alligators !

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Wildlife Alligators 2013 United States 225

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

s and “Kill me now!”s. Bells keep cats from catching birds,” wrote Maureen Eiger, whose original furious email was the inspiration for this blog. Do you associate the sound of a bell with an armed ninja who wants to kill you? The list goes on, but the blog must end. replied Mikal Deese, eliciting a torrent of “Arrgggh!”s,

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Porcupines Raccoons Birds 171

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Photo by [Clairity]([link] I have no new information or insights to offer you here; as far as I know this issue has been addressed in a number of places including this very interesting if not very current blog post by John Trapp. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. Raptors either.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

from “Baby it is cold outside&# by Clare Kines from “Superbowl of Birding 2011″ from “Birding After the Snow&# by Sharon Stiteler from “The Snow Bunting That Almost Killed Me, or, Hyperbole In Bird Blog Post Titles Is Fun&# I hope this attempt to keep you cool paid off, at least a little bit. … a.

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New York City New York 2011 Eggs 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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Birds Sparrows China Abandon 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

While many worked on the issue, we here at 10,000 Birds like to believe that Julie Zickefoose’s heartfelt and powerfully written blog post here on 10,000 Birds in October of 2010 had a lot to do with the tabling. This time around, Vickie Henderson is once again sounding the alarm.

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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 223

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. How much time did you need to read this blog? Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. Perhaps 15 minutes?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The starving young male had been rescued from the side of a road, recovered at my house, then went to my rehabber friend Lisa’s for live prey training, where he sharpened his skills until he was a mouse-killing machine. Cindy wrote on her blog that from now on whenever she sees a hawk in flight, she’ll wonder if it’s Ty’s.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rescue Killing 2012 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. The newest find of this extremely scarce bird was a male, and was “collected” (an innocent-sounding euphemism for “killed”) for the American Museum of Natural History.

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

We also were amazed by the sheer volume of road kill we saw, something that Anthony detailed in his blog post , which I highly recommend you read, about the day. We were also joined for awhile by Mike (you know, the guy that started this blog) who hadn’t stirred to see the kingbird but instead came down to see us.

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New York Bald Eagle McDonalds Fast Food 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. You can see the comments from both sides by scrolling down after the blog’s conclusion.

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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.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tennessee Raised Wildlife 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

It can’t have escaped your notice lately that the blog has been overrun with articles about North America’s pseudo-warblers (or wood warblers, as some people, apparently unaware the name is taken by a proper European species, call them), and, even worse, no small amount of poetry. And they are always a pleasure to see.

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 174

Critter News

MARCH 17, 2009

of Fish and Game hopes to kill up to 328 wolves in order to protect caribou calves. The LA Times Greenspace blog has the story. The Alaska Dept.

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Alaska Wolves Game Killing 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Beside natural grasslands, they breed in arable fields (primarily alfalfa) where there is no grazing, but they risk being killed by combine harvesters. I will keep you posted in the part two of this blog. Bustards are being counted in February because their breeding season starts in March. Lots of it.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

My random number of 20 Lessons Learned From 4 Years of Blogging at Animal Person (for the others go to #1-6 , #7-10 and #11 & 12 ) ends today with #13-20, which is far longer than I thought it would be. If I had it all to do again, I'd do a video blog and I'd get at least proficient at the technical aspects. Sorry about that.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

There has been a Little Owl living in this hollow branch for at least 3 years as documented in Simon’s Mote Park Blog and it is assumed to be the same individual though I am not sure whether it is a she or a he. They have more recently been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand, where they are known as the German Owl.

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Owls New Zealand Europe Mammals 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

The only cool thing is that Gene Bauer's views on the meat industry are so similar to those expressed on this blog a few weeks ago. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. I certainly didn't. No wonder there is so much "farm" animal abuse out there.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2014

My last blog post about the Great Vly is nearly a year old and involves a lifer, a King Rail that I twitched last June. Should you ever find yourself in Saugerties with some time to kill you could do far worse than to visit the Great Vly. And if you have a canoe or a kayak and the water levels are high you will be even more pleased!

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New York Birds Ducks Blackbirds 168

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

Twice in the past 24 hours (once here and once on Stephanie's blog, in the comments )I have come across the following statement: "[insert animal here] are safe from predators, get fed regularly, and are better off on farms than if they were in 'the wild.'" We can choose not to kill and eat someone we do not need to eat in order to survive.

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Another blog has some very interesting remarks about the species, which I will just recite directly as they are well-phrased: “The Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo, a conspicuous black bird with a deeply forked tail, often forages in flocks comprised of up to a dozen different species of birds. The dangers of being a geologist.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 201

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. My deconstructions of the language of our relationship with sentient nonhumans in this blog--and the way I approach discussing that relationship--is similar to Dunayer's.

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Since he retired from being a high school teacher in 2003 he has really focused on getting amazing images and his blog, Feathered Photography , is loaded with them. I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore.

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Falcons Ducks Utah Ethics 116

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The subject is one that comes up a lot in this blog and other bird blogs, the subject of cats and their effect on wildlife. And New Zealand has a fairly aggressive programme of conservation measures in place to protect native wildlife by killing native species, again something I have defended on th is site.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2012

Sometimes I have a bit of time to kill between meetings but, dressed in business attire, I can’t go romping down a trail and risk showing up at my next meeting muddy and disheveled. And those extremely common birds are not exactly a haul worth blogging about. Why do I know that ducks and gulls like this particular spot?

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2010

Yesterday's lessons learned were primarily about blogging. Some of these discussions make me think: Boy, that Rick Berman, that FBI, those people who spend their lives using and killing animals for fun and profit--don't need to do much to bring this movement down because we're doing it ourselves. Today they're about language.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

In addition to the live broadcast, viewers can go to natgeotv.com/sharkexperiment to find background on the experts and tests as well as live updates from an on-location blog that will include photos, video and text. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? Time of day. Panic and fear. Will you be tuning in?

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Sharks Experience Experiments South Africa 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, founder of the Raptor Education Group, Inc. But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. Six years after her horrific injury and survival she was found ¼ mile from the lightning strike, but this time she had been hit by a car and killed.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 228

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

To take cue from a very famous movie (at least in our world): This blog post is based on a true story… just the facts have been changed. She only took one breath in the entire 90+ minutes she was on land. Incredible. These guys are smiling because it is really incredible to see a Leatherback Turtle. No birds are evil.

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Sea Turtles Turtles Hunting Costa Rica 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

Now, I presume that not all the readers of this blog post will be familiar with the reasons behind the Germans’ leaving Germany for a life in the northern Sahel zone, so I’ll quickly summarize the main events: The winter of 2012/2013 has been the darkest winter ever, since daily sunlight hours were recorded.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. Nonviolence" is much more difficult to finesse if you're killing animals for a living. Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. The Nonviolent Carnivore"?

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Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

In her blog yesterday she wrote of her experience accepting the award, and who she thanked and didn't thank. She expressed her gratitude for those she kills in her book, as well: "When I first ate a meal from one of our lambs, I thought I'd be upset, since it'd been so hard to take them to the abbattoir.

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Sheep Slaughter Slaughtered Lamb 100

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. And this is one of them. But who cares about me?

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