10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

In Costa Rica, the sole tropical breeding albatross is a rare visitor to pelagic waters of the Pacific. A more surefire way to witness this long-winged bird is by visiting breeding grounds on the Galapago Islands. Two are pelagic species, two are resident, and the other one is a mystery. Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2016

Baltimore Orioles spend their winters in Florida, Central, and South America, and migrate north to breed in much of the Eastern United States. Baltimore Orioles breed in open woodlands or forest edges , preferring deciduous trees. We turn our eyes and binoculars to the canopy, where we peer through the thick, green foliage.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Though all birds will be somehow impacted by climate change, I think it is important to note that not all will suffer. High elevation species will surely suffer from shifting and reduced habitat, and that process seems to have started already. Though they breed on the tundra, Pomarine Jaegers spend most of their lives at sea.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2019

As one character explains, male whooping cranes don’t wait to get onto their northern breeding grounds before starting their elegant/spasmodic breeding dance – there’s a link between the hormones that inspire the dance and those that drive the migration instinct.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note. To female readers then: the Pheasant-tailed Jacana. How efficient.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Male Brown Teal showing some breeding plumage. Females and non-breeding males look similar The Brown Teal is endemic to New Zealand, and was once lumped with two closely related island forms, the Auckland Island Teal and the Campbell Teal. But names aren’t everything and there is plenty to say about this species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

.” Another study cited in “Wired” states that “For The Green Wood Hoopoe , Middle-Aged Motherhood Is Best”, providing the rationale that “females that attempt to start breeding early in life have a very high mortality rate.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

Ka’ena Point is also a breeding ground for the Federally protected Laysan albatross, where 45 nests were being carefully monitored by the non-profit Pacific Rim Conservation. Biologist Lindsay Young says it will take 8 years to replace the breeding birds; 14 years of research and data have been destroyed. Who suffers for these crimes?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. Still, the ability to identify a leaf warbler by song is a worrying development on the road to becoming a very nerdy birder. It is probably all downhill from here. What’s next?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. 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

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Critter News

MARCH 4, 2010

This lady is breeding tiny pet pigs that can live up to 11 years. And who will suffer? People are buying them like crazy, which means.eventually people will start dumping them like crazy. The animal shelters who have to find them homes at the expense of other animals. Thanks lady!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2017

Of course, Bobolinks are grassland birds and like many grassland birds they’ve suffered a long dangerous decline as the grasslands of the U.S. Their breeding population stands at about 8 million, according to Partners in Flight. are developed or otherwise lost. A 65% loss of population between 1966 and 2015 is no joke.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Formerly distributed across parts of southeastern Brazil from the state of Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, this Brazilian endemic suffered dramatic declines due to chronic loss of its lowland Atlantic forest habitat. Curassows are such stately birds. Photo courtesy of Ciro Albano.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a. clouded yellow) butterfly and one Brambling greeted me. Two hundred metres further on, two young White-tailed Eagles were soaring.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

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. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 4, 2008

To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2018

Due to mass wolf poisonings in the 1960s and the 1970s, Griffon Vultures in Serbia suffered a dramatic population crash. Yet, in the late 1970s there still were six colonies with about 40 breeding pairs left, but in the early 1990s only two colonies and 22 pairs persisted (of which only 13 bred in 1991) – five of them in this gorge.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. And, even worse than being hated, they often suffer being called Canadian Geese , which is just not fair to these non-Tim Horton’s-coffee-drinking creatures.) That is really a shame. It’s not my fault!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2014

Their movements and breeding is determined by rainfall and for that reason they are not always where you think they might be. The list was going to suffer due to the rain and the dispersal of so many of the bird species that we saw only three days earlier. By now the lakes were very full and there were no muddy edges.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

And prejudice should not be what determines constitutional rights in this country … Because they can suffer from the prohibitive conduct of being enslaved, the 13th Amendment protection against that conduct should be extended to them.”. As such, Plaintiffs are held in slavery and involuntary servitude.”

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

Though hardly common, Great Gray sightings are a yearly occurrence in Western Montana, and it is one of the twelve species of owl known to breed in the state. As a result, its territory in the Rocky Mountains extends far south of the bulk of its range. My hopes, to be honest, were not high. We were chasing a ghost, after all.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2016

The birds usually remote habitat makes it difficult to gain a full picture of range and population status, but it appears to have suffered a drastic decline in its former breeding areas as grassland is overtaken by agriculture.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2013

But to her long-suffering husband Stan, the rest of the residents in ‘The Street’ and to the millions of television viewers, they were the epitome of cheap, tasteless, tat. It migrates north to breed in the tundra where it nests on the ground close to shallow pools. 13, Coronation Street.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

People who follow conservation may recall this range overlaps nicely with an area that has suffered a distressing amount of deforestation and general habitat loss in the last few years, and unfortunately this has had a dramatic effect on the species. A lot of Asia’s storks are threatened by human activities.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2019

In the case of birds that breed in the Arctic, they may only spend a fourth of the year up north. Lago de Cuitzeo, which hosts hundreds of thousands of birds each winter, suffers from water overuse by agriculture, insufficient sewage treatment, and unplanned development.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress. White hawks hold special religious significance for many Native American tribes.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. If not knowing this information any longer and thus suspecting you might be suffering from dementia, there are always some other animals around to facilitate assisted suicide.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It is obvious to me that the male Marsh Wrens at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge are getting ready for the females to visit their breeding territories. Back in the 2010 breeding season, I was able to observe a male building a nest at this exact same time of year.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

However young and healthy, captives judged inappropriate for exhibition or breeding are considered 'excess' and usually are 'unloaded' or killed. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Instead, they hide behind passive verbs. Overly generous inclusion?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Towards the end of their breeding season the islands become a somewhat melancholy place as the visits by adults dwindle and then stop, and the youngsters fledge off into the vast expanse of ocean around the island. There was one young Black-footed Albatross that was apparently not planning on going quietly into the dark night, however.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). Then rumors leaked out that at this same site the mythical Red Owl could easily be seen, Madagascar Serpent Eagle was breeding and other rare birds and lemurs abounded.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 9, 2012

Smaller breeds can live comfortably in an apartment but larger dogs need lots of space and preferably a back yard. New allergies develop over time for most allergy-suffers. First and foremost, you need to make sure that your living space is appropriate size for the type of dog you are considering adopting. Or be opened to moving.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Dog’s face, head, ears, paws, between digits of the paws, forelegs, armpits, belly, tail and anal area are the common breeding areas for skin problems. So if you find your pet suffering from the above stated diseases, please don’t waste time. Seek veterinary help immediately.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

But that is what happened on Tuesday evening and I had to suffer the email reports, pictures, and facebook status updates of New York State birders who were fortunate enough to see a Northern Wheatear , a bird I had never seen in North America, at the Croton Train Station in Westchester County. And I even got to work on time! … a.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

This strange little Empidonax flycatcher is a short distance migrant, breeding in hedges and areas of shrubby growth in the highlands and descending to reedy or scrubby wet edges in winter. the species suffering most from deforestation).

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that. But why cause suffering at all when you don't need to? You are choosing domination and enslavement and forced breeding and unnecessary slaughter.

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