10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Factory Farm Factory Farming 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2012

Many of the most peculiar aspects of birds are involved with mating, whether it’s for attracting mates, defending nests against predators, or raising chicks. In this system, females mate and lay eggs with multiple males over the course of a breeding season, leaving males to incubate the eggs and raise the chicks.

2002 169

2002 North America 2000 2009 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Nobody needs to eat them.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. I’ve been locked in a chicken coop once or twice, too. The following spring a very excited biologist called me to report that one of our “rehab” martins, a female, had been spotted with a mate at a new colony. It’s a theme.”. “I’ll

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Seriously, Panama raises the art of under-communication to new, deplorable heights. Finally saw one of these jungle chickens attending to an ant swarm on Pipeline Road. Spotted some massive migratory groups at Radisson Summit Hotel and Golf Panama. Seen in groups of 1-4 at Radisson Summit, Pipeline Road, and Summit Ponds.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Chicken actually has just as much cholesterol as beef (about 100 milligrams of cholesterol in a 4-ounce serving) and almost as much fat. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

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Animal Meat Cows District of Columbia 40