10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2015
However, this is a watershed moment for this species of bird in the US. The human world is on the move to where the money is. This species is in trouble. Greater Prairie Chickens are biologically the perfect “umbrella species” in that saving them saves a myriad of other species under their umbrella.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2023
The Majestic Wetlands: Within Shanghai’s boundaries lie several pristine wetland habitats that serve as vital sanctuaries for a plethora of bird species. This expansive marshland is home to rare and endangered species such as the charismatic Black-faced Spoonbill, Saunders’s Gull, and the elegant Oriental Stork.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2014
It is also known for the 500 exotic species of animals and plants that now call the Sunshine State home. Exotic species are animals that did not historically occur in Florida. Most were introduced, meaning they were brought to Florida by humans. One such species is the familiar mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
I think of "old speciesism" as analogous to racism and sexism in that it is exploitation based on species. The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. Instead, it is the campaign to modify it. No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2015
Another species of Python, the African Python ( Python sebae ) has established a small population in the 2,877-acre Bird Drive Area (BDA) in South Florida. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org). Pythons have become skittish and take to the water upon noticing the presence of humans.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2013
The species is being re-introduced in Colombia and Ecuador where the condors are either locally extinct or persist in very low numbers. The cause of this decline is not necessarily poisoning by humans, but this is just a contributing factor. Populations of Andean condors have experienced a steady decline in the last three decades.
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