10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The name of this supernatural raven from Denmark makes an unlikely name for a California vintner, but Valravn Wines has been making wines in the heart of the Sonoma County wine country since 2014. An unlikely scene in California. And – if one believes in such things – it stands to reason that were there are ravens, there are valravne.

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2015 Denmark California Fowl 106

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2013

Summer, the season that we in the Northern Hemisphere are currently enjoying or suffering depending on your latitude and state of mind, is a time when birds often take a backseat to other diversions. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the two life birds he spotted up on Mount Baldy in southern California.

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2013 Suffering Birds California 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2014

Animal and bird rehabbers are awesome people, but even they suffer the occasional bad apple— in this case, really bad. The tree-trimmer at the heart of a disturbing Black-crowned Night Heron incident in Oakland, California turns out to be an ally for the birds. Who didn’t fare as badly as originally believed , thank goodness.)

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New York Times New York Oakland Geese 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Veronica in California. “I

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 237

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Brown, a case in which the meat industry is attempting to invalidate a California law designed to reduce animal suffering and protect public safety. The industry sued California, arguing that Section 599f is preempted by the Federal Meat Inspection Act.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Meat Humane Society Of The United States Factory Farm 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. Glue traps: For compassion’s sake, please do not set, place, or hang them. Here’s why.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

Critter News

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Umoya, a 21-year-old African elephant, died Thursday, possibly due to injuries suffered during an attack by another elephant. The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death.

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San Diego Elephants Zoos Los Angeles 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Though it was pretty warm for an October morning when I spotted this bird at Fort Tilden, Queens, it was fluffed up as if it was suffering from extreme cold. Maybe it was trying to be a big tough guy considering the volume of sparrows in the vicinity of where it was foraging?

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United States Suffering California Sparrows 182

Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The animal protection group Seal Sitters says a necropsy showed that the sea lion had suffered a shark bite and had twisted intestines in addition to a bullet wound. The one found in West Seattle was a California sea lion, protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Investigators say they do not know who is responsible.

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Sea Lions Lions Wounded Washington 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Bryde's is a more tropical species not usually seen north of southern California." The 40-foot whale is suffering from a large, deep gash on its back, probably caused by a collision with a fast-moving boat. "Both would be extremely rare. The sei is endangered and is rarely seen off the West Coast.

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Whales Whaling Suffering California 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind.

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Brazil California Condor Parrots Texas 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Later it was determined these condors suffered from organophosphate poisoning after they were exposed to insecticides used for agriculture. Fortunately, there is an interest for preserving the Andean condor and preventing an outcome similar to its California cousin. Another sick condor and two dead ones were found nearby.

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Livestock Chile Colombia Ecuador 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms. Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. After a few days they will die of starvation, unless a predator gets them first.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ethics Virginia Atlanta 252

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

From the website : Just after sunrise on Halloween, a sole trick or treater descended on the home of University of California-San Francisco primate vivisector Stephen Lisberger. As Stephen and his wife Chieko slept in San Francisco, tubes of superglue were used to fill his front door locks.

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Primates San Francisco Animal Welfare Act Research 100

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

When you walk, you give hope to billions of farm animals who suffer appalling cruelty and confinement each year on factory farms,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur, who TIME magazine recently called “the conscience of the food movement.” For more information, please visit farmsanctuary.org.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farm Sanctuary Farming 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

As things appear to be returning to normal, The UK suffered its worst ever week for Covid infections. 38 California Quail – Callipepla californica. 152 California Gull – Larus californicus. 351 California Scrub-Jay – Aphelocoma californica. 38 California Quail – Callipepla californica.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Blackbirds Ducks 220

Animal Ethics

JULY 24, 2012

Especially because animals are made to suffer in the pursuit of human purposes—in the name of "efficient" factory farming, for example, or in pursuit of scientific knowledge—the utilitarian injunction to count their suffering and to count it equitably must strike a responsive moral chord. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Los Angeles Animal Rights Movement Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 8, 2012

The central case of cruelty appears to be the case where, in Locke's apt phrase, one takes "a seeming kind of Pleasure" in causing another to suffer. Some cruel people do not feel pleasure in making others suffer. Let us term this sadistic cruelty. Indeed, they seem not to feel anything.

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Cruelty Los Angeles Suffering Inhumane 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The nests can also serve as shelter for newly fledged young and for adults, especially during winter in resident populations like those in the California central valley. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 2.

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Sacramento North America Wildlife Defenders Of Wildlife 161

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The California law adds an arbitrary and unscientific requirement that chickens be prohibited from touching one another or the side of any enclosure. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars.

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New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. And of course that premise is only possible because the animals (and everything else on the planet) are our "resources." But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Polar Bears California Condor Bald Eagle Lions 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

9): Thank you for encouraging California voters to support the state’s Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, or Proposition 2, on the November ballot. To the Editor: The American Veterinary Medical Association urges California voters to think twice before voting on Proposition 2. Karen Davis Machipongo, Va.,

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New York Times Proposition 2 New York Egg Industry 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

Soon we were out of the protected harbour and into choppier waters, and here I have to say I suffered for about two hours from the dreaded affliction known as sea-sickness. As we left the long harbour there were plenty of inshore seabirds such as gannets, shags, gulls and terns.

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New Zealand Albatross 2011 Cooking 174

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. The overwhelming passage in November of Proposition 2 in California, which banned tight confinement of many of the animals raised for food, is a fine example of the power of publicity to educate people about the atrocities we commit to those animals who have no voice of their own.

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New York Times New York Proposition 2 Free Range 40

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kristof, who takes note of the trend represented by the animal welfare proposition on the ballot in California this fall. Doesn’t he realize that he does not have to engage in this voluntary activity, which causes moral conflict for himself and suffering for the animals? We know that animals suffer as well.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. For all its cultural ubiquity in New Zealand, actually seeing a wild kiwi is actually quite a challenging proposition for a birder.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer New York 142

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Suffering and injustice are inherent in life, and time is short. Lawrence S.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

There are many charismatic endangered birds that capture people’s hearts and imaginations: the colossal California Condor , the evocative Red-crowned Crane , and the adorable Spoon-billed Sandpiper come to mind. As is most often the case, lowland rainforest habitats suffered the most with an almost complete loss of this habitat.

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Brazil California Condor 2013 Collecting 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. The next time I saw Puck, she was bounding for the crawl space with that sweet Mourning Dove in her teeth. I was mortified.

Cats 202

Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

However, I do think that there are illustrations here that suffer from washed-out blacks and whites that almost blend into the background. This is followed by abundance notations, denoting if the bird is abundant, common, uncommon, etc. Or, are the tones similar to the birds’ depiction by two masters of Neotropical bird illustration?

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America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. Their Ugandan contribution reached 258 before contact was lost. Ticks for November numbered 973 from 120 lists shared by 11 beats. 23 Nov 2019.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 136

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Because we have ARK2000, our 2,300-acre sanctuary in San Andreas, California, we were happy to be able to help. &#. Pat Derby, President and Founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, said, “Animal Defenders International contacted PAWS last year about providing a permanent home for the African lions remaining in Bolivia.

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ADI Animal Defenders International Bolivia Lions 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

To get out to the deep water we have to cruise for hours which necessitates leaving late in the evening, trying to sleep on an uncomfortable, moving boat, and waking up in the predawn hours to spend not-enough-time amid amazing birds before suffering through the long, boring ride through the “dead zone” back to shore.

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Whales Whaling Albatross Dolphins 107