10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Now we were in Finca Tres Equis, a family cocoa farm (if I understood well, it translates as Triple X Farm) and a private reserve of over 300 hectares, of which more than 70 percent is a forest, representing part of a Jaguar corridor. Young birds, at least in captivity, become mature after 5 years and start breeding after 6 or 7 years.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2020

Adams, the refuge is one of the few breeding locations for Sandhill Cranes in Washington. The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago. Located on the eastern slope of the Cascades near the base of Mt.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

I tried to search the internet for that and for people who raise pets in farms, ranchs, etc, could never find a good answer about how it goes if you keep your pet's entire group of children together with the parent(s) and don't give them away. submitted by /u/StrongAndPowerful [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2022

On some coffee farms, hedgerows can be wonderfully developed tangles of native trees, vines, and introduced plants. Hedgerows seem to provide important breeding spots for this smart looking bird. In Costa Rica, we have those living fences, these planted rivulets of green. We have House Sparrows too but this bird is much more common.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2015

We drove for about 290 km through the 400 square kilometres expanse of Pancevacki Rit and found 8 breeding colonies with 252 occupied nests, or a density of 1.6 nests per 1 km2. And what is the trend of those Belgrade rookeries? We do not know.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The farmers in the film confront very difficult questions posed by the filmmaker about why they think their approach to processing of meat is different than that of factory farming. This film provides an accurate portrayal of small-scale, non-intensive animal farming. This is as humane as "humane farming" gets.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

Partners in Flight estimates that the global breeding population is around 50 million; 30% of which can be found in North America and Canada. While hunting plays some role, habitat loss as farms switch to monocultures is the greater culprit. Accidents on roads and with farm machinery also cause many pheasant deaths every year.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2019

I assumed it to be some kind of domestic breed or an escapee and didn’t pay it much attention. I am going to make a big assumption and put it to you that it migrated north during the summer and has returned to the farm for the winter, picking up a flock along the way and leading them back here. At this time it was alone.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There is no better place to find grasspipers in New York State than the sod farms on eastern Long Island in autumn. This year is no different and the sod farms in Riverhead have been loaded with birds which means that the roads around them have been loaded with birders. What great little birds!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

According to locals the bird has overwintered near Klamath Falls for the last 5 years…I wonder where it’s breeding? A few turns around a farm field and the bird was found just hanging with some Brewer’s Blackbirds.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This is an inviting gravel road situated near Punta Uva that passes through lowland rainforest and a couple of small farms. Here’s a brief summary of that nice day of birding: Paradise Road. There’s a lot of potential and I had never had the chance to bird there before dawn.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 28, 2013

We recently went to visit a little farm, and they had a lot of fun chickens. I believe the breed of chicken is called Cochin, but as you can see, he doesn’t have the signature “pants” that his fellow chickens have. This little guy however, was missing all of his feathers. I think the poor little guy was moulting.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2018

Depending on your particular interest, opt for March/April (spring migration), May/June (breeding season), August to October (autumn migration), or November/December when waterbird migration reaches its peak. Breeding season May – June , 261 eBirded species (yet, only about 242 breed in the country).

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

It's bad enough having to deal with the welfare of normal farm animals, but what about the welfare of cloned animals? If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. From the Daily Mail.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

For example, the White-headed Duck is nowadays a rarity in Europe (okay, excluding Spain, I know… that Spain …), but until some 50 years ago, it used to breed in Serbia. The hide overlooking the breeding colony of Red-footed Falcons. gmail.com or check the maps at birdwatching.rs , so far, only in Serbian).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2020

Usually, maize is on the menu, only occasionally carrion or dead trout from a nearby fish farm. Birds to see There are 139 bird species recorded within the national park, 96 of them breeding in recent years. Distribution of the European Crested Tit in the Tara NP in the breeding season (Rajkovic and Pantovic).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2020

While he’s able to scourge what needs to be scourged (a wind farm near Maryland’s Backbone Mountain is an “environmental and visual desecration of the Allegheny front”), Beehler, in his ‘60’s, has a writerly calm and elegiac tone.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being. That immoral something is the transmogrification of organic to mechanical processes. (

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. But none came. Flor de Pascua – The Weathercock (1921) by Dutch graphic artist M.C.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

The report shows that private landowners, who are responsible for about 60 percent of the land in the United States, play a vital role in helping bird populations thrive, whether those birds are breeding residents or stopover migrants. Some of these programs are tied into the federal Farm Bill, which has gotten stuck in Congress.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2013

The Osprey is one of the true cosmopolitans of the avian world, found on six continents and breeding on five. Ogren Park Allegiance Field is the home of the Missoula Osprey*, a farm team for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Most notable of all, though, is the nest at the baseball field. Because the stadium is by the river.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2012

The first creek to the north is Willie Creek and we often visit it on the south side when we monitor the breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers. Most tourists that visit Broome take a tour of the Pearl Farm at the creek and learn about the cultivation of pearls that were Broome’s first industry.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2014

Okay, that choice is something to be expected, but how about this: some seven years ago I was guiding another British couple to a nearby fish farm where I was happy to show them the Great White Pelican – the only one I have ever seen in Serbia! Pygmy Cormorant – winter (it breeds in Serbia, but overwinters in Belgrade). My friend B.C,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2019

They do not build nests, but occupy old nests of Rooks and breed colonially among them. Red-footed Falcon’s breeding range starts less than 50 mi north of here and I hope that some will choose to join a local rookery and stay.”. Sombre Tit by Ivan Medenica/Wikimedia Commons.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 22, 2008

According to Bite Back Magazine , an activist released 1500 mink from a farm in Astoria. In the early morning hours of October 17th, a lone activist infiltrated the fur farm at 92659 Simonsen Road in Astoria Oregon. About 1,500 mink were released from their cages with at least 200 of these being breeding stock.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Between the two breeding bird atlases in the state – one done in the early ’80s and one in the early ’00s – the number of atlas blocks with Vesper Sparrows declined 49%, a decline that is echoed in breeding bird survey routes as well. What has caused the decline? What has caused the decline? … a.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2010

The dog breeding legislation, intended to outlaw “puppy-farming”, was prepared by Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment John Gormley. They also want an exemption for hunt kennels which do not breed dogs for commercial purposes. Legislators are being contacted by people around the world to support the legislation.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. And so, a breed association formed to preserve these goats. (No Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Animal welfare workers are calling for stricter laws on breeding facilities after more than 500 allegedly malnourished dogs were seized from a Quebec puppy farm last week. It's unbelievable that the maximum penalty would be $1,200 if convicted. Exerpted from CTV News. The raid might represent the largest puppy seizure in Canada.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2016

Built almost half a century earlier for the steel magnate Charles Hudson, in its heyday it included not only a palatial mansion and formal decorative gardens but also a large walled vegetable garden and working dairy farm. Meanwhile, rumors spread that royal treasures were hidden somewhere inside the place and vandals came out in force.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The best timing is during the rains, April-May and October-November, when birds breed. Lake Nakuru.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

Akin to sewage farms, garbage dumps, and other weird places where we go birding, the places where banana farms dump rotting fruit and other organic waste can attract vagrant wood-warblers and other small insectivores. The best way to find them is by birding the Caribbean coast during migration and checking banana dumps.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

4, 2008) – Voters in California approved an historic ballot measure to halt the inhumane confinement of animals on factory farms by an overwhelming margin. Prop 2 requires that factory farms provide enough space for animals to stand up, turn around and extend their limbs. It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

Parasites penetrate the skin, travel through the blood vessels and finally (if you’re lucky) settle in the urinary tract where they happily breed, doing irreversible damage to it (and if you’re less lucky they might get confused and settle inside your spinal cord or even your brain). Andrew’s laconic answer was ‘No, I don’t think so.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

Walk to a small abandoned farm and keep on along the track, crossing a small canal via a small bridge (don’t worry about the gate) just after the farm. I’ve once seen Grey Partridges there, and the meadows have breeding Montague’s Harriers. You will then see an observation tower for viewing the Great Bustards.

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