10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2012

Neither labor nor the rights of the American working class are all that popular these days, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer.

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2012 New York Birds Rights 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

But Neversink adopts an uncommon approach to gin production that’s inspired instead by European spirits distilled from fruit – namely Calvados, the apple or pear brandy from Normandy, and eau de vie , a class of fruit-based brandies often distilled from wine and wine byproducts, such as the lees and grape pomace.

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New York Connecticut Mississippi North America 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2017

You see I am sitting here typing this with one functioning finger on my right hand. This is because I have torn the ligaments in my right, and I might add, very dominate wrist. The few that are not, are usually hanging around the feeders right out side my office door.

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Birds Sparrows Pelicans Rights 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The next area was the Pacuare River Gorge, which features Class III and IV rapids. There was a Gartered Trogon right above me, and one cooperative Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on a cecropia tree, raising its head to smile at us. Driving around the bamboo thickets on a small island in the lake, Mercedes spotted it!

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Costa Rica Nicaragua 2019 Farming 253

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2013

At some point, perhaps in the middle of class, perhaps after class, perhaps in an email I receive later, this question gets asked: “How do migratory birds not get lost when the Earth’s magnetic field reverses?” ” For years, my answer was this: “Well, maybe a lot of them do, nobody said life was fair.

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Investigation 2013 Research Humane 204

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

I will conclude with some remarks about the rights of animals. When it is asked whether animals have rights, and whether human beings have duties to them, the question, I think, is partly moral and partly verbal. It is this latter view, I believe, that is in the minds of some of those who deny that animals have rights.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2015

These owls don’t live in a state park or any sort of protected area, they live in the neighborhoods, right next door to stucco middle-class Florida homes, going about their business in a landscape of manicured lawns and screened-in porches.

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Owls Florida Tenant United States 218

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

Life, Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. From what I read, birds are the class of Aves [feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals]. Because it’s important to get this right. So extreme kudos to Jason and Nick for getting it right. Who knew?]. Three times.

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2011 Family Eggs Rights 121

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

The Weekly Reader had shocked everyone in class with news of Bald Eagles dying – and humans were to blame! But birds can fly so they’ll be fine, right? 360 miles of National Park land at the border! My first ‘protest’ memory involved putting pencil to notebook paper and writing the President about the harmful effects of DDT.

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Texas Defenders Of Wildlife Bald Eagle Protest 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Labor and the rights of the American working class may have fallen into disrepute lately, but the Labor Day Weekend maintains nearly unanimous support. I’m still unabashedly in favor of this three-day sendoff to the season of sun and sand, though I’d like it more if it didn’t mark the official end of summer.

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2011 New Zealand Birds Rights 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Thomas Wolfe wrote an interesting story back in 1940, called “You can never go home again” While I am no writer, and have not penned any stories about my home town, there certainly was some trepidation in my return last week for my 40th High School Class reunion.

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Oregon Birds Montana California 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Clearly, and as someone who has spent two springs birding around the Great Lakes, I can assure you that you were right all along when you had that subtle, subconscious feeling that spring warblers really weren’t that great after all and that even in spring, sparrows reign supreme. That is class, my friends.

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Sparrows New York City New York 2011 100

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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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 122

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2013

I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? And I think this is a good move, the right move, even though part of me still welcomes the rain.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 163

Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2009

I work, volunteer, take classes sometimes, run a household and care for five animals and a husband, so I'm not as involved in the blog community as I wish I could be. However, I certainly tried to read Stephanie Ernst's posts at Change.org's Animal Rights blog. If they'd kept the name, I may have kept following.

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Animal Welfare Animal Rights Welfare Rights 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

Like others of his class and time, Schieffelin may well have been a Shakespeare fan. And there’s no doubt that he introduced the starlings whose descendants are right this very moment pacing off our backyard. But the link between those circumstances? Unknown, and probably non-existent.

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New York City New York North America Species 206

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. However that doesn't make it right to use them. We have a legal right to use them, but that doesn't mean doing so is justifiable moral ly. What say you, Billie, about that?

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Laws Ethics Morals illegal 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Cows Killing Seattle Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Erik overheard a few waiters joke about the birders “…they keep going left, then right, left, then right.” The trip had initially been planned for January 2021, but due to COVID-19, it was delayed to January 2022.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

You drive towards Jones Beach then hang a left down Ocean Parkway, ignoring the birder sitting next to you pointing out a possible Merlin and newly arrived Brant because you need to drive at just the right speed. The bird was right there, they said, pointing vaguely north. Do people keep Corn Crakes?…maybe I should go.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 173

Animal Ethics

APRIL 23, 2008

For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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Rights Morals Apes Ethics 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.” A Vega-type Gull enjoys an in-flight meal.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Yet they also bring up questions, which I’m going to talk about right now before diving into the specifics of the guides themselves. I think we do have the right to expect that artwork and species descriptions when repeated are current, reflect recent studies and taxonomic thought. © 2023 by Steve N. © 2023 by Steve N.

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Costa Rica Belize El Salvador Birds 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. And interspersed with these artworks is one of the more curious digressions in the book, the life of William Brunsdon Yapp, a 20th-century British ornithologist who studied medieval iconography in retirement.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2014

He was right! The best I could do was to finally acknowledge that a swallow was LIKE a falcon, sort of, a predator, and winged insects are sort of like birds, as prey, sort of … right?”. “I Occasionally finders mistake not just species, but entire classes. “We “Like these ones, here. Can you ID?”. It always is.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Falcons Pit Bulls 257

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Sometimes it was just a matter of looking harder — walking a little further into the woods to get my first glimpse of a Blackburnian Warbler or being in just the right place at the right time to spot an elusive Yellow-billed Cuckoo. And living my life in the same place, I’d find them. Well, eventually.

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Pythons Litter Montana 2006 196

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

yanked the steering wheel to the right, slammed on my brakes, grabbed my binoculars, and threw myself out of the car. On our way home, the three of us were planning to stop for a cruise near Hog Island , the famous Audubon camp. En route, the teenagers were chatting away when suddenly I screamed “Eagles!”, Soon the girls emerged.

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Puffins Eggs Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2017

Grandmas and little kids, bored office workers, students and teachers – when things go right your audience is huge and passionate. Maybe poop out of camera range too – although to be fair, a lot of the elementary school classes love the toilet humor. It can be a literal bone.

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Bald Eagle Belize Iowa Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2013

Plenty has been written about the joys and values of birding that isn’t list-centric, and a lot of it is right. Another thing that helped was taking a nature journalling class. Part of it has been sheer laziness. And, you know, on some level that’s fine.

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Montana 2007 Game Birds 173

Animal Person

MARCH 24, 2010

Of course none of them come close to the most important reason for my objection: that we have no right to use animals for entertainment or other reasons that are not necessary. Our clubhouse is a large house, complete with a kitchen made for entertaining and I'm going to survey the neighborhood for interest in a vegan cooking class.

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Zoos Ponies Pets Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Bottom: left – with Lisa Erb (both at El Copal); right – the Redstart Wranglers at the closing ceremony. Take Adam Riley for example: an outstanding world-class birder, yet only 1% of his birds were lifers, which clearly proves my point (I will not tell you that he has already observed 85% or so of the bird fauna on Earth).

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Costa Rica Woodpeckers Farming Owls 175

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2012

I immediately signed up for the first training class. As weeks went by, we would repeat the same process, but the waiting time got shorter and shorter until finally I was able to walk right into the kennel and she would happily sit right in front of me, eagerly awaiting several treats. What a great opportunity!”

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Shelters Kennels Adoptable Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2013

The mystery of the Long-whiskered Owlet has been resolved as a new ecolodge was built right at the area where the Owlet was first discovered. This region was also inhabited by ancient cultures and evidence of their existence can be seen as statues perched on inaccessible cliffs or cemeteries of the ruling class. Photo: Dubi Shapiro.

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Peru 2013 Louisiana Birds 189

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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Virginia North Carolina DC Louisiana 151

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2012

Middle class adoption of dog ownership required affordable collars, just like today’s mass marketed collar industry. From your bridal registry, decorating your first home, to your first baby registry, Bering’s has special gifts for special occasions and the right tools for the right job.

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Dogs Stud Houston Pets 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

.” They agree with George Wuerthner saying, “Nonhuman predators (wolves, mountain lions, coyotes, ravens and others) are disfavored by wildlife managers at all levels as competition for sportsmen and are treated as second-class citizens of the animal kingdom. All three are impaired when the basis of public debate is a myth.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 250

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 17, 2008

Hi Keith, I've created an animal rights slide show for use in my own class and figure there might be someone out there who would want to use/watch/whatever. There's a link and description here , if you'd be willing to post at Animal Ethics. Thanks, Jean Kazez

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