10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2018

Here are a few of my recommendations for some such esteemed members of the Costa Rican avifauna: Forest Football Chicken or FFC (Great Tinamou) – Since tinamou sounds like the perfect representation of an oddly-shaped bird with a small head that gives beautiful tremulous vocalizations, I am sorely tempted to leave this one off the list.

Costa Rica 152

Costa Rica Chickens Birds Soreing 152

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

If Loos thinks that animal agribusiness will win the argument on ethical grounds, he is sorely mistaken. For example, "free roaming chickens" conjures up images of happy chickens running free and unfettered all about the barnyard, when in fact the label "free roaming chickens" just means chickens that were not raised in battery cages.

Factory 40

Factory Factory Farm Factory Farming Gestation Crates 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It’s a bit of a sore thumb, a well-known essay by a famous writer-who-is-also-a-birder in a collection of essays by new and experienced-but-as-well-known-as-they-should-be writers, and I wish Rogers had given some background on its placement here.

New York City 180

New York City Birds Owls Fox 180

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I It was swollen and sore for two weeks.”. We were working on his enclosure when he sliced my arm with his serrated bill! No need for stitches, but it took awhile to heal.”. “I I was bitten by a Ring-billed Gull , and it got infected,” said Donna Nespoli.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 159

Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 159

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. It flies on. photo by JZ When a population of birds numbers only 400 in the wild, there can be no such thing as a “nonessential” individual. Not when we have but 400 to spare.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239