10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2013

In these situations, the birds have been treated like pests and targeted for extermination, or lost their eggs and nestlings to harvesting of the fields. The farmers, who specialize in silage (grains grown for cattle feed), wait a little longer to harvest their crops, giving young birds the time to fledge and move on.

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Blackbirds California Cattle Farming 191

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. This should not be a problem in Shanghai as the pitta has not been reported to breed here.

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Birds China Research Tenant 130

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

That year Congress passed the Lacey Act, followed by the tougher Weeks-McLean Act in 1913 and, five years later, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protected not just birds but also their eggs, nests, and feathers 1. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. But I digress.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 115

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.

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Morals Whales Whaling Chickens 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

He will also object to the eating of eggs laid by hens which did not have scope for normal activity. (He He will not, however, object to the eating of fertile eggs as such.) Of course one could be a vegetarian on both grounds, and object to anything either kind of vegetarian objects to. Philip E.

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Vegetarian Meat Morals Cows 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

And reports of birds nesting – not owls, of course, those weirdo snow fetishists, but other birds nesting – light up my life. With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 138

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2018

Of course we all know it will be Pat… again… , but let them have their fun. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. 13 Jan 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 100