10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

P.S. A day after writing the bulk of this post, I was re-reading the short novel “Meat is murder” by Joe Pernice – a sort-of coming-of-age story frequently mentioning The Smiths. Plus at my age, I should really like somewhat different music. Probably jazz. Highly recommended, as is some of the music of Joe Pernice (e.g.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

It isn’t just tourists and game hunters that like them though; Painted Wolves are also big fans, as they are easier to bring down than the larger species but have more meat to eat than a small duiker. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round. Yields more high quality meat as it retains 95-100% of the original bullet weight. The Mourning Dove is a prolific breeder.

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Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Though I had seen guillemots a couple of times before I had never seen one in breeding attire and I was smitten. Most of our looks were much better than this.

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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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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

And finally, there will be Marsh Harriers everywhere breeding in grain fields instead of reeds. But of course the mammalian meat eaters will be happy too and reproducing like there’s no tomorrow. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches. Gotta be mouse gradation.

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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? Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? Many sanctuaries do not permit breeding.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 18, 2011

However choosing what food to feed your pet is a major decision especially as there are different types of food specifically designed for different breeds and lifestyles. Hills pet food offer a range of food designed for puppies of various breeds including sizing of the food to ensure comfort and encouragement.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. When Purple Finches leave Ontario in October and November, they return in mid-April to mid-May to breed. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added. For a full version of the forecast, head here.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 14, 2011

So it’s particularly important to take control of their daily food intake by planning a suitable diet tailored to their breed, age and lifestyle. Take your pick from succulent meats, fish, poultry, along with healthy portions of rice and vegetables.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 27, 2012

Cats are obligate carnivores, which means that they require a diet high in meat and protein. Certain cat breeds have more complications than others. Know the warning signs of the following feline afflictions: Feline Diabetes . Cats can get diabetes, and it is often caused by a poor diet. This leads to diabetes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Though some species are shedding breeding plumage and taking on more somber winter colors, they’re still often cute as button. Most likely, the seed is a of couple years old and no one else will carry it in their stores because the nut meat is not as desirable to birds (and chock full of meal moth larvae). Why is that?

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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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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. We all know junk-food vegans and vegans who eat "faux meat" products every day.

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The Botai did not just herd horses for meat. Horse-drawn carriages and breeding and racing horses and using them to play polo or to schlep kids around is an insult to horses. The site was where northern Kazakhstan is now, the culture was called Botai and the date was around 3500 B.C. Let's leave them alone.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The film Partitions (running time: 14 min) by Audrey Kali gives an intimate glimpse of the ethical struggles that five small-scale meat farmers face when their animals are slaughtered. The farmer fails to note that the natural lifespan of pigs is 11-15 years and the natural lifespan of chickens is 5-11 years, depending on breed.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. A more accurate name for the end result would therefore be “clean meat.”

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

In recent years, MRSA has been found in retail cuts of chicken, pork, beef and other meats—a particularly worrisome trend since MRSA can be contracted simply by handling infected cuts of meat. Just how prevalent is MRSA-infected meat? Unfortunately, MRSA can be passed from person to person. All evidence points to factory farms.

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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. In other words, the perception of pain is affected.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Meat eating as implied by the foregoing remarks may be more ecologically responsible than a wholly vegetable diet. Animals, beginning with the Neolithic Revolution, have been debased through selective breeding, but they have nevertheless remained animals. They have become, in Ruth Harrison 's most apt description, "animal machines."

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. The chance that this was a real Turkey are not great, and the chance that Columbus actually brought breeding stock from Honduras to Spain is not great, so maybe, maybe not.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Below is a slightly elided version which removes some of the Ontario-specific information and leaves just the meat of the forecast. Breeding success is higher in areas with budworm outbreaks because the abundant larvae are eaten by adults and fed to young. Photo illustrations by yours truly have been added.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2009

The Argument from Superior Aliens’ Invasion John Harris advances the following consideration to show the immorality of eating meat. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat animals you breed, keep, and kill for food?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. The helper birds play an important role in the survival of the chicks as well as assisting in excavating a suitable cavity for the breeding pair. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. The Rhinoceros Hornbill is the state bird of the Malaysian state of Sarawak ( source ), which unfortunately does not prevent hunting of the bird, not only for meat but also for the feathers. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Consider some of the victories: On November 5th, 2002, more than two and a half million Floridians voted "Yes" on Amendment 10 to amend the state constitution and prohibit the use of gestation crates , narrow metal cages where breeding pigs are kept for most of their lives. The full text of the amendment is available here.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2014

It breeds in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard and overwinters (singly and at mountain top hot springs – if Hollywood is to be trusted) along the coasts of northern Europe. discovered that the usual flock of several thousand Pink-footed Geese was wintering in the Broads National Park. One of them was partially leucistic.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2012

The first two to three ingredients listed should be meat, and not grains or vegetable by-products. Puppy, senior, and large breed dog foods all offer benefits, but not all special formulations are created equally. If you want to feed cooked foods, ensure that the primary component of all meals is meat.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

The elimination of vultures had its own knock on effects, such as the increase in feral dogs (now that there was more meat available for them) and corresponding increase in rabies. Losing a few non-breeding lions in zoos a great deal less. This story didn’t break today, by the way. Conservation Lion vultures'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat. 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.

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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. Of course that also brings up the dilemma of feeding cats and fish, who are omnivores and actually need to eat some meat in order to be healthy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

The Great Egret was in breeding plumage and courtship posture–bright lime green lores, head bending down and then snapping up, long, impossibly delicate plumes waving over its body as if possessed by independent spirits. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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