10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). This is not really an option at Nanhui though.

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China Birds Ukraine Killing 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The opening beautifully encapsulates the essence of the book. The book, like the opening scene, is a deft combination of her personal observations of birds most of us rarely see, in a wild place very few people have visited, and of the natural histories of these birds. Do I need to say anything more? And, this was badly needed.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news! .” This is what killed James Dean.

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 242

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the non-breeding season, Common Merganser all look pretty much like females. Not a bad look though – more attractive than the male breeding plumage, I think. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds. To enhance this image, they very much like to pose on power lines.

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Birds Germany India 2018 226

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 143

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2021

This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. (We Mid-May to Mid-Jun is the best time to see some of the most exciting species here, as this is the prime breeding time. The driver later had a rather simple explanation – “I dozed off”). Time to leave.

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China Birds Vietnam Fast Food 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Greater flamingoes winter in large numbers Kerkini’s wintering Flamingoes probably breed in Turkey Forty years ago Flamingoes were rare visitors to Greece: several thousand now winter on Kerkini Lake Kerkini is an artificial lake, its depth varying considerably throughout the year. Such an abundance of wildfowl attracts Peregrines.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Buffalo 224

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 225

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

A lovely looking and distinctive sounding bird (so they say, I sadly have not seen one…yet), the Kirtland’s Warbler can only be found during its breeding season in Jack Pine forests 5 to 20 years old in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. photo by Lynn C. Leopold and his friend Richard Loeb are two of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

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Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Lucky him, right?

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

They are software mascots, cartoon characters, animated film dancers, children’s book heroes, zoo celebrities, and documentary film stars. As much as you think you know about penguins, there’s a lot more to learn and wonder at, and it’s all in this book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 209

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hopefully, the winter time in Shanghai gives the Black-faced Buntings some time to relax from the challenges of the breeding season. As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern).

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

In her book, “ On a Wing and a Prayer, “ Sarah Woods describes the bird that captured her interest when she first visited Panama: “At more than one metre tall and able to kill a monkey with a single swipe of its powerful, knife-like talons, [H]arpy [E]agles are incredibly hard to find.”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

It isn’t in your book of seabirds? (It But, to Elizabeth Gehrman, the author of Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man who Brought it Back from Extinction, and to David Wingate, the man who Gehrman profiles in this excellent book, the Bermuda Petrel is always the cahow. You’ve never heard of the cahow?

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

The-author-formerly-known-as-John-Lee-Douglas claims to have died twice already, once when he was killed in a household accident at the age of eight, and again in 1977, after which he devoted the rest of his life to practicing what appears to be some form of Buddhism.

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Connecticut India Lamb Lions 141

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species. Conservation Lion vultures'

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

I am showing some photos of the Crested Barbet just to be able to use a quotation from a book by Joe Ide (The Goodbye Coast): “For no apparent reason, he was wearing a hideous Hawaiian shirt. The helper birds play an important role in the survival of the chicks as well as assisting in excavating a suitable cavity for the breeding pair.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Add more than 350 pairs of White Pelicans to that picture, numerous herons and up to 700 pairs of Pygmy Cormorants breeding in the same reedbeds (cover photo)… It must be bursting with activity in spring, but I was there in mid-September. Have you heard of it? Can you pinpoint it on a map? Other taxa. Maps and guides.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Breeding 252

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

to the ongoing conservation of breeding Lesser Flamingos at Kimberley’s Kamfers Dam to the Albatross Task Force, which works with fishermen to find solutions to seabird bycatch (birds caught in fishermen’s nets). The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It supposedly has the longest bill of all birds, a record certified by no other than the number one scientific source for this kind of data, the Guinness Book of Records. Also possibly disappointing for those who like the macho image of raptors: The diet of breeding falcons consisted mainly of insects (55%). Disappointing.

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Birds Pelicans Falcons Parrots 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

And, he literally wrote the book(s) on California birds. At this point you already know that the population health of a bird species has to do with numerous, rather delicately balanced factors, such as when the primary plant or insect based food supply emerges in relation to the timing of migration and breeding, and so on.

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2018 Science Humane Species 101

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Those are the final words of the book. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do. But for now, we have a book that describes how we got here and what we might do.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. I am thinking of writing a business book, “Business Success the Cuckoo Way – Achieve your goals while letting others do the work” I think it could be a bestseller. Similarly, the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher is the White-browed Flycatcher in Chinese.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. And, then there were the droppings.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Being technically outside the summer tourism season, one can enjoy the somewhat less expensive travel and hotel costs, less crowded venues, great weather and nearly endless daylight—and of course many birds migrating and beginning the breeding/nesting season! Their fares are also quite reasonable—especially if you book in advance).

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 197

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. Like any other unnecessary killing of innocent beings, it still wouldn't be humane" (137).

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

That leaves us with animal welfare, which I do think we are genuinely interested in, mostly because of the myriad videos, documentaries, books and websites that have made it tough to avoid over the past few years. Lipka introduced me to the idea of killing "respectfully." People are talking. And acting. That one left me speechless. "My

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Western Gull chick.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

Now free flying in California, Arizona, Utah, and Baja, condors are slowly making a comeback thanks to those, like the Center, who’ve committed to captive breeding and releasing these amazing birds. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. We’re beginning to understand why.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 218

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2012

Puppy, senior, and large breed dog foods all offer benefits, but not all special formulations are created equally. Cooked bones can splinter and kill your dog. Similarly, these ingredients may increase parasite infection, increasing the money you must spend on vet care and pet medications. Special Formulations Added to Dog Food.

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Dogs Cooking Rights Pets 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

In 1856 Wahlberg was killed by an Elephant near Lake Ngami in Botswana without ever publishing an account of his travels, but fellow Swede Carl Sundevall catalogued his collection at the Stockholm Museum and described the birds Wahlberg collected. This was the first book on the birds of KwaZulu-Natal. Image by Adam Riley.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow. If left unchecked, free-roaming cats will breed and their populations increase at locations where they find suitable shelter and food, resulting in environmental/property damage, and public nuisance. But I don’t want to do nothing.”.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243