10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. In his first chapter, on the Raven, Moss is an enthusiastic borrower from Bernd Heinrich’s classic The Mind of the Raven , and in chapter ten (about which more below) a good deal is sourced from a 2022 book, The Bald Eagle , by Jack E.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2024
Since Twitter hadn’t been released yet, mainly for lack of phones, Thomas had a lot of time and he proceeded by scientifically and statistically refuting Buffon’s statements in his own book “ Notes on the State of Virginia”. Nowadays, the numbers are being controlled through culling. It was awful.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2018
Organize your bird books. If you’re like me you have way too many books about birds, birding, bird identification, birding destinations, bird finding, and any other topic tangentially related to birds and birding. Neaten up so you know what is where and to avoid harming visitors with a book-avalanche.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
And culls of Nyala have been proposed. I was in Africa earlier this year and the universal message I got was that bookings were down down DOWN because of ebola. Booking were down by half in some wildlife tourist sites. Attempts have been made to fence off parts of the endangered forests. But tourism can’t save all of it.
Animal Person
JUNE 17, 2009
On Egypt's Pig Cull. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language Animal Rights Animal Welfare Compassion in World Farming World Farming. Eat More Veal? How About Be More Honest. On Graphic Images We DON'T See. The PeTA I Knew and Loved, Sort Of. Not a change in the way they do things.
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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