10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

It comes from an incident related by author Gerry Rising in his book Birder’s Break: 100 Brief Essays. But when both birds approached an eagle, it attacked: the hawk was able to evade the eagle, but not so the crow, which was killed instantly. and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki. W.R.Parks, 2018 (March 1, 2018). 10 x 8 inches.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

And the book is about much more, ripple effects from what happens when part of a living thing becomes the central ingredient to a highly visual, social, profitable business. I did often wonder while reading the book whether the result equaled the effort. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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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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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Throughout the book, Keith mocks vegetarians and vegans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

There has been a lot written about Kirtland’s Warbler, it is one of the most studied birds in the world, but, as far as I know this is the first book that tells its many-faceted story as an adventure tale that can be enjoyed by all of us. photo by Lynn C. Leopold and his friend Richard Loeb are two of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

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Animal Person

APRIL 29, 2009

Well, she apparently did such a great job convincing the folks at the Minnesota Book Awards that you can claim to love animals and then send them to slaughter, that not only was she a finalist for their award, but she won it. You won't be part of a kill and disassembly line but you will be killed, one at a time" (159).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

So, yes, there’s plenty enough information about migration in the book to justify the subtitle. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences. Kaufman is a terrific writer and A Season on the Wind is a terrific book. by Kenn Kaufman.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

There have been three books written about Pale Male and 2 movies made about him, and saying that he was the bird that sparked my birding obsession makes me feel like I am living out an urban cliché. The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. To be consistent (and nonspeciesist).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. It was amazing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently.

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Critter News

MAY 20, 2009

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans." -- Leo Tolstoy.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. It is a skillfully, beautifully written book about finding joy and spirituality in nature and birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

And, he literally wrote the book(s) on California birds. I will note briefly that climate science deniers are claiming that the actual reason for the collapse is that the Mohave Desert has been “filled” with windmills,and these windmills have actually killed all the birds. More recently, Kelly J.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. Those are the final words of the book.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. I explicitly avoided taking a position on the wrongness of killing animals, for I wanted the book to reach non-philosophers, and the issue of killing cannot be dealt with briefly and simply.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.” required to determine those catch limits.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are not people who are interested in discussing animal rights, as in, the right of sentient nonhumans to not be used by humans for potential profit, for sport or for lunch. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron.

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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. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75).

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

HSUS’ latest public relations gimmick is part of a larger attempt by the very animal control officers responsible for this neglect and abuse to reform their image from one of “dog catcher” to “humane law enforcement.” Nathan Winograd is an advocate for no-kill shelters (and is the author of several books on the subject).

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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. It has had very few humans walk its soil and who have had little impact to this otherwise pristine nature.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche. Their hallmark: They don’t kill. 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. We’re beginning to understand why.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty. Kyla recently founded Up For Pups, a non-profit approaching humane education through creativity.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2009

He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). I use different books in my courses to keep things interesting for me.) Each argument has an audience.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. You could not have two books more different from each other in slant, outlook, and prognosis than Inheritors of the Earth ( the Thomas book) and The Aliens Among Us (Anthony). Prum, Doubleday). What’s magic about 1970?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) This was the first book on the birds of KwaZulu-Natal. They discovered Gurney’s Sugarbird during their time in South Africa. Image by Adam Riley.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 3, 2007

I just wanted to share it with you: I was at a book signing recently for my book ( All Creatures of Our God and King: What God's Word Says About Animals ) and I was approached by a man who asked me the following question: "Why would anyone want to write a book about what the Bible says about animals?

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