10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

State and Federal Agencies feared that if these two large constrictor snakes are allowed to breed they would produce a hybrid super-python. Burmese pythons either escaped from pet trade breeding facilities in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew or were released by people who no longer wanted them as pets.

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Pythons Florida Mammals Reptiles 179

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened. Salmón, J.

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 108

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

The bird on the photo is one of the estimated 3500-15,000 individuals still alive according to the HBW – a frightening thought given the (too) large number of humans, of which there are about 1 million times more (and of course, each of which weighs 5000 times more than the flycatcher). It is probably all downhill from here.

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Birds Raised Cattle Mammals 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

Golden Eagles have a global breeding population of around 300,000 birds, 3% of which spend at least part of the year in Mexico. They also prefer open country as habitat, and feed on insects, mammals, birds, fish, and carrion. Though their populations appear stable, their future health is not without risk. ” Crested Caracara.

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Albania Mexico Eagles Kazakhstan 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2015

These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate. A place where we humans can travel to in hopes of seeing things we may never expect to see from shore. We went out again the next day. No rest for the weary, I suppose.

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North Carolina Mammals Breeding Fish 173

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. Cattle Egret has been introduced by humans to Hawaii and the Seychelles.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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Birds Research Humane Pets 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. This is a Pika, a charismatic and beloved mammal found in high elevations in much of western North America. Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea. Climate Change.

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 210

Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). Here are some of the my favorite quotes: In reality, species don't evolve toward greater humanness but toward greater adaptiveness in their ecological niche (105). Today's nonhuman apes don't represent earlier stages in human development.

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Speciesism Apes Advocacy Salamander 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Previously common at its only known site, Lake Aloatra, into the 1930’s, the introduction of numerous exotic fish species and human disturbance led to massive population declines. Madagascar, however, has had more than its fair share of extinct or lost species and Madagascar Pochard was firmly on this list.

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Madagascar Lemurs 2006 Owls 233

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. 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.

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2010 Louisiana 2012 2011 227

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an eye. This pair first appeared four years ago, and are amongst the most northerly known breeding Pacific Loons in North America. I don’t know why the nest was abandoned, the most likely culprit being too much human activity.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. And finally, there will be Marsh Harriers everywhere breeding in grain fields instead of reeds. You’re not a vole or a gerbil. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat.

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Fox Rodents Gophers Germany 164

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Below is a selection of the endemic birds and mammals that can be encountered during a birding trip to Ethiopia, all photographs by Adam Riley during a January-February 2012 Rockjumper Birding Tours trip to Ethiopia. Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed.

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways the the flowering of the antelopes as an evolutionary group mirrors our own story, as they benefited and spread widely as the world’s forests gave way to savannah and plains, just like humans. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.

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Africa Hunters Goats Wolves 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. One of the projects I did was related to the famous Big Dig in Boston, the largest public works project ever carried out by human beings.

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Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The mosaic of wetlands, open water, bottomland forests and prairies provides habitat for numerous mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and nearly three hundred bird species.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s all about the improbable intersection of human beings and Emperor Penguins, and if I can’t make it to an Emperor Penguin colony (highly unlikely), reading this book has been the next best thing. It’s part memoir, part travelogue, part scientific narrative, part prologue to making an argument for Antarctic conservation.

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Penguins Seals Leopards Research 152

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. 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. I and the Bird vultures'

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

One of the pleasures of birding through a landscape no man has gone before is that one has frequent encounters with individuals – birds, mammals, herps, whatever – that have never seen a human in their life. Mammals Kazakhstan rabbits' But also, yet again to my utter surprise, a single Tolai Hare. what is this thing?

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Humane Kazakhstan Camels Rabbits 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

192) from the timing of seasons to the ferocity of weather to the shape of breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat to even the size of birds themselves. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. It is often hard to be positive. But Weidensaul seems to have optimism in his DNA.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 246

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) This bird breeds in the forests of the Transkei area and is only a winter visitor to KwaZulu-Natal. Image by Hugh Chittenden.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Western Gull chick.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Fortunately, there were still a handful of immature birds alive at sea, and a few years later they were back on Toroshima breeding again.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. It’s an effective introduction.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

There are conservation efforts to save these species by individual aquarists, who are keeping and breeding them in hopes that they can someday be reintroduced into the lake. would you see keeping these fish confined in an aquarium as a rescue effort or as a selfish act by humans that interferes with Nature?

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Fish Rabbits Rescue Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Lynx Edicions, the ornithological (and now mammal) publisher that gave us the Handbook of the Birds of the World , has now published Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea , by James A. With the advent of human development, we can now add “farmland and plantations” to various types of forest, rainforest, and swamps.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 122

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a third element, only hinted at in the opening–the environmental and scientific necessity of gathering this data to document the importance of keeping the Pacific Northwest waters healthy and uncontaminated by human elements. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Grey-backed Shrike apparently prefers locations close to human settlements – not because humans are particularly nice (we are not), but “because these habitats offer a better foraging substrate and places safe from large predators” ( source ). I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil.

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Hamburgers Birds Science China 200

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan.

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 196