10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. White-backed Vultures, photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Last year, beginning about Halloween, thousands of juvenile auklets started washing ashore dead from California’s Farallon Islands to Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off central British Columbia. Since then the deaths haven’t stopped. “We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. Early Morning Bird Walk – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder. Juvenile White Ibis in New Jersey – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. White-faced Ibis , Plegadis chihi. White-faced Ibis in Flight – Mia McPherson, On the Wing Photography.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. A lost pit bull mutt broke up an attempted mugging of a woman leaving a playground with her son in Port Charlotte, Florida. One, then another, flew off and brought back pine needles and twigs and laid them by his body. Photo by Paul Huber.

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