10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

How much do birders value a birding experience? But there are few transactions that can be analyzed to determine how much value birding experiences, themselves, provide to a birder. This includes bird-watching experiences. Some aspects of birding can be calculated and studied economists.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

They want an authentic nature experience, but a relatable authentic nature experience. Maybe poop out of camera range too – although to be fair, a lot of the elementary school classes love the toilet humor. There’s only so much I can do. They want this as instinctively as you want that dead vole. It can be a literal bone.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Spot-breasted Oriole, attending its nest In my experience, male Spot-breasted Orioles begin to sing in the first half of March through most of May on the very same perch in the very same tree every day in spring. It exploits a niche not used by any native, extant species in the region, feeding on nectar, fruit, and insects.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

Anyway, the story is not quite how I remembered it, to be honest, but fitting enough to describe the almost claustrophobic birding experience in ever-shrinking Nanhui. Not always terrible – ok if you are in business class, or you catch it yourself. A Vega-type Gull enjoys an in-flight meal.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 204

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Funny thing is that the professor of the next class disagreed with some of that, and there's a class devoted to the history and function of our laws. Not judging something because it has already been deemed legal brings up another point that has always irked me: that judging is bad.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2012

Many organizations exist throughout the United Kingdom to assist farriers and people desiring to be farriers to become registered and remain well educated through classes, training and competitions. When the horse experiences extreme pain it may not flex the leg properly causing the digital flexor tendon to contract.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, the great birding experience that is Sani starts lower down. However, it’s not just the birding that makes a trip up Sani Pass such a memorable experience. Photo by Adam Riley. From the quaint historic village of Himeville, the Sani road winds through green pastures and grasslands dotted with lakes and wetlands.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. I should know, as a librarian I was taught to worship classification systems like LCC, the Library of Congress Classification system which divides knowledge into 21 basic classes, and subject heading authority lists.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Standing at the hawkwatch at Kiptopeke State Park, as I did for a significant amount of by visit to Virginia, was a humbling experience, not just for the word-class birding raptor watching but for the enormous numbers of passerines passing overhead at any moment.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2012

I immediately signed up for the first training class. One of my favorite experiences was the chance to work with Shelby, a dog that was absolutely terrified of men. What a great opportunity!” I thought to myself. I was in heaven; a room of people all in love with dogs as much as me.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. The book’s writing style is simple, direct, and occasionally personal, with quiet references to the couple’s own experiences and warnings about a particularly tricky quiz.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. This was in fact the very first record of Cuban Pewee in the ABA area and would have been classed back then as a once-in-a-lifetime Mega-tick! That most dreaded of disappointments. That bird can then be referred to as a”dip”, the noun version of the word.

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Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Here's what I learned and will do: Though I recently ended a complete nightmare of an experience on a couple of boards of directors and have sworn off them, I might have to get involved, perhaps at the committee level. The board made the decisions based on what other communities have done (uneventfully and successfully, by their standards).

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2009

You get a lot of education and coaching for that $2000, but you can learn mindfulness meditation or various Buddhist meditation techniques, free of charge, any day of the week from either your home via the Internet, or at a free class. Here are the benefits to TM, in my experience. You have to register to watch the conference.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. This is what got me, the incongruity.

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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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

This may be the most awesome pelagic you’ll ever experience… For me it was the publication in 1984 of Peter Harrison’s ground-breaking identification guide to ‘ Seabirds ’ that opened up the off-shore world of pelagic birding right on Cape Town’s door step.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

But we frame these birding highlights within a broader, more comprehensive experience, visiting world-class museums, archaeological sites, and cultural landmarks. The ruins of the Roman city of Glanum are an excellent place to look for bee-eaters and nightingales.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. This is a sampling of the literary array Rogers has gathered from birders who write and writers who love birds. The essays range widely in place, bird, and voice, though the emphasis is on the North American.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

My friend and colleague Dave Holtzman was bringing his Vertebrate Biology class up from SUNY Geneseo and thought I might add some entertainment educational value to the experience. SUNY Geneseo Vertebrate Biology class with Professor Dave Holtzman a.

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New York Birds Owls Research 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2013

World-class surfing, fishing and birding may not seem to go together but in Riviera Nayarit the three pastimes are what draws throngs of visitors every year. San Blas, situated on the north-western coastline of Mexico’s Riviera Nayarit is one such place.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Back in September, a friend and colleague who teaches at SUNY Geneseo brought his Vertebrate Biology class to the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory to observe some master bird banders at work. Frankly, fall warblers may be one of the main arguments against bird watching.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. They had two world-class datasets on which to draw the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey. That’s one of my photos above.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. The Northern Bald Ibis is listed as Critically Endangered.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

So sorry, but this is a necessary part of our thought experiment!) Let’s do another thought experiment. First, I set the dial to produce the kind of high energy radioactive radiation stuff that would be emitted by an atomic bomb, and calibrate it to dose you (sorry, but this is necessary for our thought experiment!)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

As a clumsy person, she enjoys the experience of literally stumbling through nature, learning as she goes, experiencing the magic of finding something interesting. Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. But that makes her sound awfully stuffy.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

I even attended taxonomy classes at university. Working with field guides and without background knowledge was a horrible experience. At the onset of this post, let me firmly state that I love taxonomy. Biogeography, speciation, splitting, lumping, all that jazz really sets my boat afloat (well, the lumping not so much).

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Animal Ethics

JULY 17, 2008

For a non-self-conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Peter Singer , "Killing Humans and Killing Animals," Inquiry 22 [summer 1979]: 145-56, at 152 [endnote omitted]) Note from KBJ: Singer is making a distinction within the class of sentient beings.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

One of the high points of my visit was experiencing the city’s world-class mass transit system. I read that the Peak was a great place for thrushes in winter; experience proved the veracity of that observation, but you’ll need to examine the underbrush closely. When it comes to cities, Hong Kong is as big as it comes.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Those large international agencies use reputable local ground agents, and in my experience this creates a safety cocoon around the travellers. It covers everything, but what puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

There simply is no good reason to kill animals for food when plant-based foods are available.

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