10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

Animal Person

MARCH 31, 2009

I think I'm going to start a contest for the most absurd/ironic/bizarre sentence to come out of the mouth of a human each week. The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval."

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day. We humans tend not to think of utility poles and wires as “beautiful” or “natural” elements of the environment, when we notice them at all. As Daniel L.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The plight of elephants has become so dire that their greatest enemy—humans—is also their only hope, a topsy-turvy reality that moved a woman named Daphne Sheldrick to establish the nursery back in 1987. Shortly before David’s death, the couple finally arrived at a precise mixture of human baby formula and coconut.

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Elephants Kenya Wounded Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.

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Netherlands Birds Buffalo Science 158

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2011

………… Lament for a Lost Way of Life We used to follow the buffalo across the endless plains Laying eggs in grassland nests and listening to the cranes. Pronunciation of human words is difficult for cowbirds to grasp.

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Eggs Buffalo Sparrows Humane 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. In September, Abigail Ruth, a small human, was born and I became a grandmother. Baird’s Sparrows are true prairie birds, and their population is declining as their grassland habitat is cultivated for agriculture. Well, not really a bird.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Perhaps the most positive reaction came from noted bird photographer Marie Read, who noted that the information about waterfowl reaction to humans and decoys would be of great interest to nature photographers. She also grew up in upstate New York, which makes me wonder if she had a hand in that Buffalo mystery bird page?).

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It also includes one of the world’s largest known populations of hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (18,200) and buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (204,015). With no permanent habitation inside its boundaries, human disturbance is low. I think you could make a good case that this reserve is important.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. In exchange for a handful of wildebeest, oryx, impala, buffalo and kudu, not to mention the occasional lion, enormous areas of wilderness and all the species they contain are set aside and protected. A hungry child should be fed.

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 172

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver – Bubalornis niger. Bund Baretha Wildlife Sanctuary. 10 Feb 2016. Yellow-throated Petronia – Petronia superciliaris.

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