10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

My cats refuse to even try Fiery Minivets. While my cats like the taste of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo , they tend to look fairly ridiculous eating them, as the racket tail sticks out of their mouth. The associated bird species seek out drongos, apparently relying upon them heavily for protection.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 202

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.” In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats.

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Mountain Lions Rats Rodents Lions 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Even our local Greater Sage Grouse , which now are receiving a huge effort at habitat protection, and restoration, were just those really cool birds out in the desert. After several hours of research, my deep appreciation for this wonderful shorebird has not diminished.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 102

Critter News

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Follow-up from the Utah scandal in which shelter animals were being sold for research purposes. The money will cover a portion of PETA's legal fees for a lawsuit the group filed in January about animals that had been sold by the county shelter for research purposes. For the full story, go to NECN.com.

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PETA Shelters Ethical Treatment Utah 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow. But I may not find one.

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Animal Rights Advocacy Rights Marine Life 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

The cat actually appeared almost golden in the early morning light and this time we could admire its magnificent thick, blotched pelt, extremely long tail and large head. However most recent research places them amongst the Panthera. This is the genus of the typical large cats including Lion, Leopard, Jaguar and Tiger.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Fortunately, there are some people working to protect the Scarlet Macaws of Honduras. Though Scarlet Macaws are threatened in Honduras there is hope that they will get protection and recover at least some of their numbers and former range. Their plumage is simply amazing and the colors are astounding. The proposal from U.S.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

Using the Birds of Peru field guide to identify a species of antshrike This course has three admirable objectives: To train the next generation of Neotropical bird researchers, both international and Peruvian, in efficient and standardised mist-netting, bird ringing/banding, and bird ageing skills. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. • Explore These Related Posts More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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2011 Deer New York Owls 151

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Just as the ranger was telling us that we might see wild cats – well, not wild cats, but rather, Wildcats , the wild version of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris lybica , one of those cats popped its head out of the brush about 50 feet beyond her. The most interesting thing about this cat was lack of kitty-cat-ness.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 254

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 9, 2010

Your dog or cat—your best friend in the world—gets sick. It takes a bit of research, but learning the early symptoms of pet illness can save you hundreds or thousands of dollars in the long run. Understanding the early warning signs of serious ailments is one way animal loves can protect their pets and their wallets.

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Vet Pets Research Industry 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The mascot for this year’s National Justice for Animals Week is Adam, a spunky black cat who was set on fire by two teenage girls in a vicious attack in Santa Rosa, California, as an eight-week-old feral kitten. Adam survived third-degree burns on 45% of his body and the case grabbed headlines around the world.

ALDF 100

ALDF Animal Legal Defense Fund For Animals Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The recommendations will sound familiar to any birder or naturalist who wants to protect and improve her local patch: Immediately shut down cat feeding stations. They wrote books and published research. Their sightings were published in Birdlore , the Auk , the Kingbird , and the Linnaean Newsletter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 146

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home.

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Birds Rats Breeding 2012 164

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled.

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Dominican Republic 2011 Birds Deer 180

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It was very touching to read a comment from Mayr to a more non-scientific article by Liebers & Helbig in a German birdwatching magazine about the Herring Gull not being a ring species, where Mayr applauded them and was happy not only over but beyond the moon about the research. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

• Explore These Related Posts Windy Roads, Next 99 Miles – The Heavy Haul Through the Rockies Many Happy Returns to the Owl Research Institute Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds Clean and Healthful Winter Finch Wonderland.Or Get yours today! These Blasts From The Past Mockers Everywhere! Wicked, right?

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 132

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

A little online research into some of these topics, however–like Elizabeth Gould, an extremely talented woman who illustrated her husband’s bird treatises and who despaired of his collecting habit–and I realize that Dunn was probably exercising a lot of restraint. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Donsker, D.;

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. A Great Backyard Bird Count Miracle Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of January 2011) What is the International Bird Rescue Research Center Anyway? Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 203

Critter News

JANUARY 13, 2009

The intent was to protect birds by removing one of their predators: cats. It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds. What happened was something that hurt the birds worse.

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Feral Cats Rabbits Feral Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. He told me quite a bit about his observation – sadly “undocumented&#. The proposal from U.S.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 197

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Now this, might not sound like anything of particular ground-breaking significance, but in the context of animal personality research, it is a fairly big thing. While studying, he also worked on various conservation/research projects (parrots, wagtails, vultures, and anything else that flew) and ringed thousands of birds.

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Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 146

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first! We relocated it to a native tree, so it was better camouflaged and protected. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Get yours today!

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2011 Australia Deer New York 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Feeling lazy, or I would do the research myself.) Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. How do we know this? Wicked, right?

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2011 Deer Africa Peru 160