10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Statue “Phillis Wheatley” by Meredith Bergmann, in Boston. For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. Makes you think.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
As a talked to a couple from Boston, new to birding, I spotted a Clapper Rail walking close behind us. The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. Today, there are 105 breeding pairs, 12 of them on Nonsuch (these numbers are from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Neotropical Birds web site).
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 9, 2009
Michael Martin is a professor of philosophy at Boston University. A CRITIQUE OF MORAL VEGETARIANISM Michael Martin Boston University Vegetarianism is an old and respectable doctrine, and its popularity seems to be growing. Would it be morally permissible for you to kill some people and eat them? Martin’s text is indented.
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