10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Of course, many people still know exactly what they did when this happened. Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Back to birds. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Me, as a management consultant, I sometimes have to pretend to like challenges but of course, I would rather have some easy tasks. 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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

So, the next blog post on Shanghai birds may turn out to be a lot more interesting, though of course with regard to bird migration, May is more interesting than June … As I am unlikely to see a live gannet any time soon, I might as well point you to the song “Nigel the gannet” by The Burning Hell now.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

May is a busy month for birds migrating through Shanghai – and of course, last May was completely missed due to the lockdown. During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. It is probably all downhill from here.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

The Blue-crowned Laughingthrush (Wuyuan) is listed as Critically Endangered, as there are only about 250-280 birds spending the breeding season in Northeastern Jiangxi (and according to the HBW, it is not clear where they spend the non-breeding period). And of course, I would have been wrong. The shame would kill them.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2013

That of course is true of many birds.) They breed on a number of basaltic lakes in southwestern Argentina, and it is not entirely clear where they all winter, but some wintering Hooded Grebes have been found outside their breeding range (and a few none-breeding birds have been found year round at two locations on the Atlantic, apparently).

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2010 South America 2011 Argentina 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Of course, the CBC has sexier abbreviation: with the IWC (or iWC?) These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here. we will kill it!”, words “international water closet” come to mind. My mind, at least. And this one chose to fly right in front of us.

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Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2018

He was the first director of that museum, edited that journal, invented the niche concept, and, of course, came up with the Grinnell system. Sites lost on average 43% of their species, and occupancy probability declined significantly for 39 of 135 breeding birds. And, he literally wrote the book(s) on California birds.

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2018 Science Humane Species 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

But when the biological imperative to breed is on the brain, and springtime is peak time for thinking about breeding, they can become raving psychos, each bird desperate to lay claim to a nest box that would allow it to raise young and thereby pass on its DNA to the next generation and win the evolutionary sweepstakes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Of course, what they are talking about and how they are changing their behavior is very frustrating for someone who doesn't believe we should be using animals at all. When I think about the language that has been used by people who kill animals or have someone else do it for them, a couple of years ago the "compassionate" trend began.

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Chickens Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! We went to settle into our room, and since I had about an hour to kill before dinner, I took a quick walk around the property.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of course, the second explanation makes a lot more sense. Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. Let’s hope it can find some relatively unfragmented habitat for breeding – studies show that the failure rate of nests is much higher in fragmented habitats. This can lead to birds being poisoned.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The story of the cahow, a “Lazurus species” that was thought to be extinct for over 300 years and then discovered to be breeding on a tiny remote island in Bermuda, is part of modern birding legend. A particularly good type of fertilizer, for example, drastically increased the population of crabs, spoiling Bermuda’s golf courses.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In the US, of course, we have meteorologists for that. The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer. But now there is a study of birds that detect coming storms and get out of dodge before things get bad.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

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. Of course, there are those things to consider. Their hallmark: They don’t kill.

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California Condor California Idaho North America 218

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. You are choosing violence. Because their flesh and secretions taste good.

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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). It was the first of six bustard species I would see over the course of both trips. I am a birder, after all.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

But something happened, and it happened many times: Something has been killing our Blackbirds. But there is a catch: Something has allegedly , apparently , with increasing probability as we gather more data , … been killing our Blackbirds. And of course there is seasonal variation. Why aren’t we entirely sure?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Other areas of New York City where the parakeets were seen in 1970 included the upper East side of Manhattan, Great Kills, Staten Island, Ellis Island and the area around the Statue of Liberty. Of course, the only thing my daughter knew was that she had to go out in the cold and look at birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

Of course you could bring in here the debate over the whole subspecies concept: there are over 20 of these in the Herring gull-Lesser black-backed gull complex, so. It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

Of course, this raptor pattern baldness exists for a good reason, which is another of the distasteful aspects of vulturine biology. In the 70s, with the survival of the species in jeopardy, the entire wild population was captured and brought into a captive breeding program in southern California. Vultures famously feed on carrion.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 190

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 132

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. Leopold and his friend Richard Loeb are two of the most infamous murderers in U.S.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

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. The question of course is, are you really significantly decreasing suffering? I understand where that compromise comes from in one's thinking because it used to drive my thinking.

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Vegan Suffering Free Range Animal 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Of course, given the sometimes confusing covid travel restrictions in China, it is possible that the bird in question simply did not dare to travel any further south for fear of ending up in quarantine somewhere. Both bushtit species occasionally are supported by helpers when breeding ( source ). You pervert.

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Birds China Killing Reptiles 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” Of course, if science is not for you, you can also look for the Spiritual Meaning of Willie Wagtail (“Unlock the amazing secrets of this spiritual symbol”) here.

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 242

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. But that's now what happened.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Foxes that slunk back in fear and snapped their teeth didn’t get to breed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. It was discovered in KwaZulu-Natal province by Dr Andrew Smith.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Lilac-breasted Roller is the national bird of Kenya, but of course, this does not help it pay its bills in South Africa. These hornbills have the well-tried breeding strategy of enclosing the female in a tree hole. .” The Latin species name caudatus does not really mean much – just that it has a tail.

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Swaziland Landlord Birds Sweden 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity. Nests were in hollows in palm trees.

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Cuba Parrots Collecting Columbus 252

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