10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Henry Philemon Attwater was born in Brighton, England and spent his early adult years in Canada, but the state of Texas – which he first visited at 30 and made his permanent home at 35 – has embraced him. This last is particularly poignant, if not a bit eerie, for the modern conservationist.

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Chickens Texas Louisiana Wildlife 125

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

During the weekend that I was there, it was announced that there were over 1300 fires burning just within the state of Oregon, not to mention California, Washington, Montana and British Columbia, Canada. I imagine I have a pretty good idea of what this does to the human inhabitants of the area, but what does it do to the birds?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Of course, right now, they're just being shipped to Canada and Mexico anyway, where health and welfare standards are much, much lower. for human consumption after Congress quietly lifted a 5-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, and activists say slaughterhouses could be up and running in as little as a month.

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Horse Slaughter Horses Slaughter Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada. This standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable. Human development should not threaten the integrity of nature or the survival of other species.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2017

We had been at sea for 5 days and 5 nights, over 100 miles off shore, sailing non-stop from the USA-Canada border to San Francisco. While I have only seen this behavior a couple of times, the night herons do share at similar response with humans, with regard to a very hot day. One of these is my very first Black-crowned Night Heron.

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San Francisco Shelters Canada California 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

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Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 154

Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Yesterday's " Do Small Victories Affect Big Picture in Animal Rights Debate? Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Carolina grasshopper Dissosteira carolina ranges from sea to shining sea, into Canada and nearly to the tip of Texas. They can carry parasites to humans. Wherever they roam, they prefer weedy grasslands with areas of bare dirt where they can sun themselves. Thanks a lot, Internet. That’s real helpful. So, which birds?

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Montana Cooking Texas Cattle 169

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You drive towards Jones Beach then hang a left down Ocean Parkway, ignoring the birder sitting next to you pointing out a possible Merlin and newly arrived Brant because you need to drive at just the right speed. The bird was right there, they said, pointing vaguely north. State police can be zealous around here. Or by a cat!

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New York North America France Feral Cats 164

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2013

Travis got to experience things he normally wouldn’t (like spending about 5 hours every day in a pool) and seeing the world famous Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team (I can post a photo of them right? I don’t know why the nest was abandoned, the most likely culprit being too much human activity.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Eggs 168

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

OK, that is extreme, but what’s really slicing my Twinkie right now is an article from the Ottawa Citizen about a report from the journal Wildlife Research which projects that 22 million birds die across Canada every year after flying into windows of residential homes and that yards with feeders seemed to have more collisions.

Rabbits 113

Rabbits Killing Canada Farming 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

The nest cam, in my mind, is the perfect compromise — minimally invasive to the bird, while offering even the most unadventureous or house-bound humans the opportunity to get to know a small slice of nature.

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Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 166

Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

It reported that human error surrounded more deaths than at any other zoo and forced immediate plans be taken to make sure of the animals’ safety. The stingrays passed away right after an interactive display opened that let visitors put their hands on them. Tags: zoos calgary canada animal abuse.

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Zoos Animal Abuse Bats Goats 100

Animal Person

APRIL 24, 2009

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. Meanwhile, I would love to be able to have some kind of law against human beings producing/reproducing more than one person per person.

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Project Treadstone Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? Michelle Nadon, Aurora, Canada To the editor: Bars? The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience? Lisa Edmondson, Los Angeles

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Los Angeles Gorillas Zoos Non Human 40

Animal Person

MAY 12, 2009

Reading Deb's post about the goslings at Poplar and getting Jenny 's request to sign a petition to save the Canada geese of Ballwin, Missouri from mass extermination reminded me how much I miss the wildlife at the neighborhood we lived in from 2002-early 2005. This is Girlie Girl. Not to be confused with Little Girl, of course.

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Geese Ducks Feral Cats Vermont 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2013

Despite all the people, the birds were incredibly active, rarely shy, and a reminder that natural wonders like the cherry blossoms interact with more than just us humans. One Starling flew right past me, with, surprise surprise, a cherry blossom in its beak! The Grebes were gone, but present were the ever ubiquitous Canada Geese.

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DC Washington Birds Geese 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Unlike other Canada goose subspecies, duskies have limited summer and winter ranges.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Although it is impossible for me to prove this, you should take the word of this Overlord Ornithologist when I say there are simply more good birders around right now. 9) Birdfinding.

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San Diego California Condor California Bald Eagle 173

Animal Ethics

JULY 5, 2007

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Consumers are right to be wary; rBGH threatens to undermine the safety of nature’s most perfect food. Europe and Canada outlawed using hormones on dairy cows because of such human and animal health concerns.

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New York Times New York 2007 Cows 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. The symbol on the right indicates roughly how the sounds in each group appears on the spectrogram.

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North America America Birds New York 176

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

There are also a number of Takahe , one of which, named Greg, has learnt that humans equal food, and will hang around the day visitors in the hope of a snack. Wicked, right? Greg the Naughty Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) Tags: Destinations , new zealand • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Hat-tip to Stella.

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New Zealand 2011 Deer Cats 149

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. Six months and two ocean crossings behind them, my hummingbirds were home, right where they belonged. She’d land on a low twig right by my face and peep. I know one thing.

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Birds Parrots 2003 Raised 273

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122