10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2024

In between now and then, I will spend a week and a half in California, in the land where birding may mean walking on paved paths, or even on a wooden boardwalk built through the middle of a salt marsh. But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. Going to the gym brings me no joy.

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Birds Livestock Sparrows Mexico 215

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers. Photo: Alexander More.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

They get a bad rap due to their dependence on carrion to survive, but I look at it a different way: these species do not have to kill in order to thrive! Columbia has chosen one of the world’s most massive flying species as its national bird: the Andean Condor. Most humans cannot say that.

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California Condor Livestock Endangered Species Killing 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2017

For many of these species, this is a time when they are at their most precarious, out in the wide open getting a drink. At this end of the waters edge, quite a bit of livestock had had been in and out, leaving large footprints in the mud. The California Quail used a similar hoof print for their needs as well.

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Livestock California Sparrows Birds 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 266