Critter News

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

“California voters have taken a stand for decency and compassion and said that the systemic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, the primary back of the YES! All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food.”

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Prop 2 Wayne Pacelle Proposition 2 California 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds. He came for the hawks.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Some people love books like that. Northern Flicker eggs in nest and nestlings.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

In the eastern United States, where primeval forests are gone, purple martins depend almost entirely on man-made nesting structures. Another cavity nesting species that breeds in Lassen Volcanic National Park is the Brown Creeper ( Certhia americana ). Therefore you see owlets in different stages of development in the nest box.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

I recently asked ChatGPT some questions about the best birding locations in the United States and the results were decidedly mixed. How many birders are there in the United States? # # # Query: What is birding? Here are the results, which are much better, and a brief analysis of each response.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.” Distribution maps are also different from other field guides.

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Bolivia Birds Brazil Switzerland 169

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

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. More than nine billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the United States. More and more people do not.

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New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2009

Woodard goes on to note: MRSA is so common in the United States that it accounts for more than half of all soft-tissue and skin infections in ERs. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds. are fed to farm animals.

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Vegetarian Factory Farm Factory Farming Factory 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Check out this graph adapted from eBird that shows the frequency of sightings in the United States in 2012 – Red-breasted Nuthatches are showing up on birders’ checklists just over sixteen percent of the time! Remember that friend of mine that saw 17 breeding pairs of Snowy Owls in a single valley? Or a larch cone.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 262

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2020

But when raised, they seem to have a sort of weird cape. In other words, they never raise their own young. Instead, they lay their eggs in other species’ nests, and let those nest-making birds (often significantly smaller than the cowbirds) raise their young. But in most light, they appear to have a shiny black color.

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Birds Blackbirds Mexico Cattle 153

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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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In 1952, the continental United States was looking pretty good actually on the extinction front. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. If you choose to consider 1944 the year, most people were a little busy right then. We could do it! Then the 80s happened.

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California Condor United States Guam Whales 194

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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Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2012

But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. waters every year after breeding. The split is based on evidence of very limited gene flow between the populations despite geographic overlap.

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Falcons Parrots California Breeding 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It shows that of 588 species assessed, 314 species in the continental United States and Canada will lose half or more of their current ranges by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace (which is approximately 8 degrees F of warming by the end of the century). Chestnut-collared Longspur is one of those.

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Species Science Los Angeles 2000 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. journey, written up in diary format.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

Rarities such as Blue-winged Warbler , Hooded Warbler , and Nashville Warbler have all been recorded multiple times, and these records raise a lot of questions as to which species spend the winter regularly in the comparatively underbirded Caribbean islands.

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Florida Miami Cuba Bahamas 158

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2018

Following passage of the United States Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, the California Condor ( Gymnogyps californianus ) was among the first 75 species listed for protection, the so-called “Class of 1967”. Reintroduction efforts expanded to Arizona in 1996, and later, to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico.

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California Condor Oregon California Zoos 103

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

So, while waiting for evolution to produce new birds for our life lists is inadvisable, we sometimes catch a break and every few years get a new species or two when some genetic research or study of breeding distribution presents enough evidence to split what was once considered a single species into a few new ones.

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Ohio India Hawaii United States 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The Western Gull is a relatively common marine gull found on the western coast of the United States and northern Mexico. It is at the breeding season, however, that the Western Gull accomplishes real mischief. Did I say firm? I meant squishy. Warm, damp and squishy. Followed by a firm smack with the bill.

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Breeding Collecting California Hunting 174

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. Pieplow has here expanded the scope and raised the bar, making the spectrogram THE core of the field guide.

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North America America Birds New York 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I knew I would not be seeing the bird in its rosy-breasted breeding plumage, but somehow seeing the bird in all its forms helped crystallize its appearance in my head. or birds that look very different in their breeding and non-breeding plumages (Shorebirds! I studied it. Sadly, I still did not see the bird.

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Ireland 2013 Breeders Ducks 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

It was a United States lower-48 birding year for me. I birded parks, landfills, fields, backyards, skies, oceans, lakes, ponds, and roads in 15 states–some familiar haunts and patches, some as part of family visits, some while passing through, some adventures with friends (three trips with N.J. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. True to form, the United States Department of Agriculture seems less concerned about the health or status of Yellow Bitterns and more about managing the birds on Guam to minimize threats to aviation safety. You should try it too.

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