10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2019

With that in mind, it’s always a pleasure to see more books and information available about birds and birding in Costa Rica. Other books and apps about common birds in Costa Rica have settled on 300 or so species and even then, that still leaves out more than 600 species (!).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2016

I have no tours booked, and no migrant species have made it this far yet. As much as I suffer, I can’t help but think about what the combination does to the birds that live in this extreme desert environment. This is that time of year here in Mexico, where everything “birds” slows down to a crawl.

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Mexico Suffering Birds Species 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Animal and bird rehabbers are awesome people, but even they suffer the occasional bad apple— in this case, really bad. Because there is clearly a dearth of zombie tales on our bookshelves and TV/movie screens, along comes a book in which the zombies … mimic birds. Who didn’t fare as badly as originally believed , thank goodness.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In retrospect, it kind of makes me wonder what image the organizers who booked the hotel for me had of German academic visitors … So much for my quasi-madeleine moment, though of course less emotionally attractive than the one described by Mr. Proust. Well, it seems such people exist.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia. Sounds interesting.

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Cruelty Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 100

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. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49).

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

She’d written at least three books before Silent Spring , all of them well-known about the sea. Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind , was published during this time and noted her growing interest in migration. Carson’s phrases embedded themselves in my young, nature-absorbent mind, and I never forgot the urgency of them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

Mary suffered for several weeks in what must have been an agonizing, bedridden death, finally succumbing to internal injuries at Wijnendale Castle, on March 27. During the hunt, Mary’s horse lost its footing, throwing her from the saddle into a ditch. The horse landed on the young duchess, breaking her back but not killing her outright.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. Well, supposedly there's a film and book deal pending. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. Who will benefit from all this? His new trainer? He should just be left alone.

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Animal Sanctuary Psychology Connecticut Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2024

My aunt Greet gave me a book in 1975 that featured the 60 most endangered birds in Europe. In the book, one picture stood out in particular: the White-headed Duck. For lack of better pictures that was the one that got used in the book (out of print – ISBN 90 274 8348 5). Buy the book and take a week!

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Spain Ducks Morocco Europe 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2016

Any open areas close to the city would be thronged, so I contacted Terry and asked if I could join him on a trip that he had booked for two other birders out to Miyun Reservoir. I had a spare day which coincided with the weekend. They were targeting the Jankowski’s Bunting , but would obviously look at other birds along the way.

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Asia Campaign 2010 Suffering 102

Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them. As for vegan authors, in response to Deb's query about bloggers , here are a couple of things to think about: Book deals get canceled for all kinds of reasons, and sometimes they have nothing to do with the author or the book. Sometimes it's about money.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. 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. Now we just need to step in a different direction.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154).

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Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2015

In the grand scheme of things, this is just a small town and only one person was killed due to injuries suffered. I rushed down to aid with what I could give, taking several spare bird books, DVD’s, bird T-shirts and Birdman Productions hats along with 2 pairs of my “extra” binoculars.

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South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Killing 266

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. 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. Now, sure, maybe some of it will get converted to tourism.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

The title of this book I found in the library at the Point Reyes hostel was just a little too accurate a description of our vacation thus far. Instead, there were dire reports of overnight wildfires in Sonoma and Napa Counties, with the nearest over twenty miles away on the north shores of San Pablo Bay.

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San Francisco 2020 California Blackbirds 228

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. And this is partly what’s so disappointing about the message of this book: Herzog amasses the research, and sees and does things that involve tremendous suffering and injustice. They are vegans, and he has the utmost respect for them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 28, 2012

If an important member of your wedding party suffers from pet allergies, then perhaps you should limit your pet’s participation. If having your pet play a part in your nuptials is absolutely essential, make sure you get a green light before you book your venue. Train, Train, Train.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

There are countless CDs and downloads and books, but MyYogaOnline is not only convenient (as in, you don't have to leave the house), but it is also very inexpensive to join (and you can view sample videos free of charge), and the videos are beautifully produced. I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering.

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Emotional Vegan Ethics Suffering 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 12, 2010

If there has been progress in ethics recently it has been through the realization of some ethicists that animal happiness and suffering has to be considered equally with that of human beings. I should draw attention here to the remarkable book Animal Liberation by Professor Peter Singer of Monash University.

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Ethics Animal Liberation Suffering Science 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Side note: Indeed, if you follow the titles of newly published books, you will see that there is a constant flow of “Reverse harem” publications. Another puzzling thing to me, as for me, the ideal number of people to live with would be somewhere between zero and one but definitely not above 1.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2011

We added very few birds here and there but mostly just suffered on our bikes as we tried Hidden Valley one more time, hoping to get the Bobolink that only Clay had heard earlier or the Eastern Bluebird that only Brian had managed to hear. If this means that I get my birder credentials revoked, well, so be it.

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Soreing Birds Suffering Woodpeckers 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

This has allowed me to move from having an opinion to owning the truth in all that I say, and being invariably correct in all that I do, regardless of what others say or write – be it in casual conversations, books, or in scientific publications. I am just not fooled anymore. Legs: The Expendables 2. Legs: The Expendables 3.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 191

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. you lose interest in social activities and friends.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

. * Starting in the 1950s, the American public became aware of the cruelty, disease and death suffered by these iconic animals, thanks in large part to the actions of one woman, Mrs. Velma Bronn Johnston--better known by the nickname she earned--Wild Horse Annie.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny. photo by John Huba.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2012

Three decades past and they’re the state’s rare bird committee, the leadership of the state ornithological club, the authors of countless articles – even books – on birding in the state, the voices that, for better or for worse, are respected as the final words on identification conundrums or distribution questions.

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North Carolina Groups Suffering Hunting 156

Animal Ethics

JUNE 3, 2008

In setting out to write this paper, my intention was to fill a gap in my book Animal Liberation. Instead the argument for vegetarianism is based on the suffering that is, and as far as I can see always will be, associated with the rearing and slaughtering of animals on a large scale to feed urban populations.

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Killing Animal Liberation Vegetarian Animal 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

camera, laptop, book and a snack. The one downside: they make your feet incredibly stinky, but if that’s what I must suffer for foot comfort, so be it. I have a backpack from Swarovski but there are a variety of backpacks out there that will do the trick. My carry on will always have my scope (1.) binoculars (2.),

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Birds North Dakota Florida Soreing 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Species Accounts section takes up the body of the book, and is arranged taxonomically according to the AOU Check-list of North American Birds, Checklist & Supplements through 2017 (with a small number of exceptions, the Introduction notes). Of the native breeding species, 112 are endemic or “very nearly endemic.” (Can

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

A „ magical place “, he calls it in that chapter of his book. Magical“ is one of those words that suffer from overuse and I usually avoid it – but in this case, I cannot think of a better description. His answer was, this site is already dry, that one may not be too bad, but the Kerkini is always good.

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Greece Pelicans Serbia Eagles 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. “America’s refuges face a grim future” Already underfunded and understaffed, National Wildlife Refuges are now facing even more budget cuts.

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

As always, you are reminded that if you take the time to look at this post YOU MUST SHARE YOUR BEST GUESSES or you will suffer from broken optics, missed life birds, and the clap. And no time to look at a book and try and figure it out. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin! Second bird is a Mitred Parakeet.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 182

Animal Ethics

MAY 4, 2008

Animal rights ideology holds that moral worth comes with sentience or the ability to suffer. For example, Charles Patterson wrote in Eternal Treblinka —a book specifically endorsed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals—that "the road to Auschwitz begins at the slaughterhouse." It is one of the best books I've read.

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