10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
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. Carrion Crows like to think of themselves as very modern birds. To enhance this image, they very much like to pose on power lines.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. Here are some examples of when a bird definitely needs your help and a call to a federally permitted bird rehabilitator is warranted. Mites will eventually kill the bird. After all, “Mother knows best.” So: When do you intervene?
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Animal Person
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
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. Maybe "humane" is already on its way out for the folks trying to convince themselves and others that humane killing isn't an oxymoron. That one left me speechless. "My
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
Oil begins to wash up on the beaches throughout May and June of 2010 May 6, 2010 Oil washes ashore on the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast, an important nesting and breeding area for many bird species. The visibility of the BP oil spill might be blurred but it is definitely not forgotten. It will happen again.
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. The part that I definitely believe is laudable, and I can get behind, is in the final chapter: "Exploited to Extinction.". When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. Seney National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1935 as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” Swan Lake Refuge is managed as “a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife”.
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