10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2020
Field guides listed two subspecies – delicata (which would eventually become the highly migratory Wilson’s Snipe ) and paraguaiae (breeding resident South American Snipe ) – which were extremely difficult to discern from one another in the field. It toyed with my emotions for many minutes before it eventually flew off.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
It was organized to boost eBird use, raise funds for bird conservation, and just get more people out birding. Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? This call to massive birding was known as the Global Big Day and it was meant to be the first of many GBDs to come.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2012
They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening. My first view of them was at a distance.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2019
I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. American Crows live in extended families, with sons and daughters from previous years helping to raise the current brood.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 8, 2011
Gazing at Cathy Conheim, a psychotherapist raised to hate cats because they ate birds, and Donna Brooks, a retired physician and sculptor who had never had a cat, but always reached out to heal anyone who was hurting, the kitten eyed them hopefully. Emotional bandage,” which conveys some of his lessons. Play the paw you are dealt.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 27, 2008
We can treasure the cultural and historical bond between animals and domesticated animals only by ignoring the emotional bond. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. And there is no good reason to breed, confine and kill animals for food unless we believe that economic benefit justifies killing.
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