10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

The Cocina boasted hearty Costa Rican cuisine, but its real attraction was a collection of busy hummingbird feeders situated right by the front door. Good thing the ABA Code of Ethics doesn’t apply overseas! It all started when we pulled in to the Cocina Costarricense on Volcan Poas. And what a lineup! Amazing, no?

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Costa Rica Ethics Collecting Rights 158

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 234

10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

Many essays, especially in the later sections, end with a question, hopefully getting us to think more about questions of ethics, conservation, and the puzzles posed by nature. The sections are also labeled according to the months of the year, the idea being that the book will take us through a year of birding.

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Birds North America Breeding America 114

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

Collectively, these MBCF funds have purchased about 2.7 A new stamp that establishes an unambiguous revenue stream for our National Wildlife Refuges while resonating with the values and ethics of the non-hunting community. million acres or about 3% of refuge land 2. A Wildlife Conservation Stamp ! Is this idea so difficult to grasp?

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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. I usually enjoy collections of articles and essays, they allow me to sample different writers and different ideas. I wish I could say the same about the other pieces of writing here.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 106

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. Many of the names of the photographers, listed in a 21-page section at the back of the book, are familiar: Glenn Bartley, Brian E.

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North America America Birds California Condor 278

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

For generations in the past, the story of animals came from their collective wisdom and heritage, from what we might call their myths and legends. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language animal rights animal snuff films free speech Supreme Court Vamsee Juluri veganism. What do you think?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Some suspicion may arise at this point that the land ethic is ultimately grounded in human interests, not in those of nonhuman natural entities. The question of ultimate value is a very sticky one for environmental as well as for all ethics and cannot be fully addressed here.

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Ethics Morals Animal Liberation Humane 40

Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

This rapidly growing site is to be a global resource on alternative methods, the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, and refinement), animal ethics, and animal care, with hyperlinks to related Web sites and databases. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb. Check it out at www.jhsph.edu/~altweb. A university library will usually serve you well.

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Animal Research Animal Medical Research Research 100

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 30, 2007

Basis of this collection are the interdisciplinary lectures on Animal Rights which took place from April to October 2006 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (Germany).

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Germany Animal Ethics Switzerland Netherlands 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 3, 2008

And, in a world where there is too much hate, the judgment of many earnest moralists is overwhelmed by the charms of love; and there are those who come to accept it at its own valuation and are thus led to assert that people have an obligation to increase the collective total of all value in the universe.

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Lamb Fowl Morals Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

He roots the theft in the history of collecting bird skins, in the brief life history of Edwin Rist, in the secretive world of classic fly tying, and in his own efforts to follow up on a police investigation that got the man but not all of the loot. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2009

Keith, Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, is extremely close to reaching our goal of collecting 10,000 signatures on our "Truth Behind Labels" petition to the USDA to tell them their "naturally raised" label is not natural. We're currently at 9,556 signatures—96% of the way there!

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Farm Sanctuary Meat Farm Animal Farmed Animals 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Los Angeles 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

eBird seems to be critical of this species’ work ethics, stating that “it flies lazily over open fields or marshes” Maybe the owl is just sleepy, not lazy. As I only saw one loon at Fengxian (a Red-throated Loon ), I do not have to choose a collective noun anyway. I thought I needed to mention this.

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Birds China Pythons Breeding 200

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2006

In 2003, I was in the sanctuary described in your article and collected samples from those dead animals. To the Editor: Re “ Ebola Imperils Gorilla Species in Congo Republic ” (news article, Dec. Historically, these diseases have been studied only when they affect human populations or domestic animals.

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New York Times New York Gorillas Congo 40

Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2008

Closer to home, the AP story reports that: fish collected in waterways near or in Chicago; West Chester, Pa.; According to the column, more than 100 different pharmaceutical compounds have turned up in surface water around the world.

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Species Dallas Phoenix Unwanted 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

I’m not gong to go into the ethics and reasons behind why a zoo might want to, well, manage its stock. The internet is great at collecting information, but it is at best so-so at working out what’s actually important. (It’s But to get to that story, well, lets say there are a lot other stories to wade through.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

I was privileged to be present in the court when this case was argued.

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New York Times New York Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2007

Illinoisans breathed a collective sigh of relief. On May 24, Governor Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law. Finally, the vicious killer, Cavel International, would have to close its doors for good. But with millions of dollars on the line, the killer Cavel wouldn't be dispatched so easily.

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Horse Slaughter Slaughter Slaughtered Horses 40

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

As far as I know, no good evidence has ever been collected to support or refute (1). Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. People who do not eat meat tend to be less cruel and inhumane to persons than people who do eat meat. But Hitler was also a vegetarian.

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Vegetarian Morals Inhumane Meat 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the early 1940s, when Jim Tanner collected the funds to buy and protect the Singer Tract, the last stronghold of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , the representative of the Chicago Mill and Timber Company told him boldly and openly that they “are not concerned, as you are folks, with ethical considerations.” “We

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 199

Animal Person

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Finally, until we as a society develop a collective objection to killing human animals who have committed atrocities, we are unlikely to develop such an objection to killing nonhuman animals. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language. Where's the moral objection on behalf of cows?

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Humane District of Columbia Cows Morals 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). And, there are many. Some offer nest information, egg information, breeding timeline, in flight views, etc.

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Australia Birds Penguins 2015 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects uses stuff, redefined as ‘objects’, a term that gives an archival sheen to everyday items, to tell our collective history. I expected a picture book; I got a collection of essays! 32, 1887) and Egg collection (no. There are many unexpected goodies here.

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Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

It took a full day to locate the origin of the meeping of the first one (aptly named The Meeper), but after that it was pretty easy to catch them (in a propped up strainer on a cushion of towels) and put them in a safe place until they were all collected and ready to reunite with their mom.

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Euthanasia Wildlife Rehabilitation Fowl Birds 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. She had quite a system, slinking down low and moving swiftly from one plant to the next, one bookcase to the next. And right before my eyes, I discovered that Muscovy ducks eat frogs.

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Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. In his fresh and candid first post (available here ), Jonathan admitted that he is struggling with the issue of ethical vegetarianism.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Why anyone would examine a specimen collected in 1888 for mummified chewing lice is a mystery to me, but so is the appeal of Donald Trump. This bee-eater is another bird species with a somewhat underwhelming work ethic. I was expecting to see quite a few barbets in Sabah but eventually only got decent photos of one, the Brown Barbet.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 201

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Work ethics among Yellow-billed Kites seem to vary a lot between individuals. Other people – ornithologists, perhaps – ask whether Cape Verde kites exist ( probably not ). They do, however, believe in the existence of the Yellow-billed Kite.

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South Africa Africa Birds Cape Verde 180

Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

There had been a collective sign of relief at Barack Obama’s election in the U.S., Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. In throwing out Zelaya they are sending frightening messages to all the other presidents who are trying to raise the living standards of their people.”

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Honduras Los Angeles Obama 2009 100