10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Have you ever seen a Greater Prairie Chicken? However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. Destroy the native prairies and lose Henslow’s Sparrows , Bobolinks , Upland Sandpipers , and Greater Prairie Chickens. This species is in trouble. Today in Illinois, 68 males survive.

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Chickens Illinois Campaign Nebraska 201

Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

Riddle me this: If you're in camp #3, do you think it's bad to pursue personhood for individual species, or is it just something you're not going to spend your time on because of the various problems with the process (e.g., Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species? and chickens don't?)

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Dolphins Animal Rights Rights Animal 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Latimer's ignorance also comes across in his discussion of anti-fur campaigns, so it's easy to miss this potentially good point (about some animal activists): But did you ever notice that we don't hear very much from them if anything about shoe leather?

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

And, to give his dream year a little more oomph, he created a grand once-in-a-lifetime goal: to track down and see every pitta species in the world in one year. Some of his finds are the first documented records of the bird in that area or the first decent photograph of a little-known species. And mosquitos.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Only you can help prevent three threatened Australian birds from permanently falling victim to sugar gliders, according to a crowdfunding campaign. Why did the chicken cross the archipelago? Help them rack up 4,000 species in 24 hours on eBird!). And last but not least, get your owl snark on.

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Malta Barn Owls Cyprus Fowl 180

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2019

For instance, Frederick rejected centuries-old folk wisdom that claimed that Barnacle Geese ( Branta leucopsis ) – a species with a seasonal occurrence in Europe – were born not of eggs laid by breeding geese but were spontaneously incarnated from driftwood afloat at sea. Could this be the first “accipiter sp.”

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